We (I) really wanted to attend the Philadelphia Temple open house. With school starting the same day as the open house, Labor Day weekend was our only opportunity without missing a bunch of school.
We took the Friday off, so we'd have more time. After driving Thursday night, our first stop Friday morning was Hershey's Chocolate World.
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| Spiffy new entrance. |
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| Chocolate World still has that ride that takes you through a chocolate factory simulation. Updated to include singing cows and talking Hershey's candies (see characters on portico in the first photo.) |
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| The ride still dumps you out in a huge marketplace. Remember the tall trees inside? Still there! |
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| The town still has kiss-shaped street lights. The kids didn't notice a chocolate smell in the town. |
Then we stopped at Jason's Uncle Del & Aunt's Mary Lou's house (condo)near Lancaster for lunch.
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| At the park, I taught the kids how to play Got It/Dropped It, on maybe the last turntable thing of its kind. |
Brief rest stop in Valley Forge (no interesting photos taken), we made our way to Philly.
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| First view of temple, right next to the freeway. |
We met the Browns there and got on the last open house tour of the evening.
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The temple's underground parking garage has two stories above ground. The top is like an observation deck.
(Despite the limitations of red-eye correction, this photo isn't bad considering the low light.) |
We spent that night with friends who used to like in Bloomington, who now live in Philly area. See next blog post for more!
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