Hershey's Chocolate World - Pennsylvania

This morning we had a nice quiet breakfast at a restaurant inside our hotel. After breakfast, we gathered all of our belongings and left them with the bellhop before heading over to Hershey's Chocolate World. What an amazing place! We started with a tour of the chocolate making process. You get to ride in a "car" and the tour takes you thru the entire chocolate making process.

After that we took a Trolley ride thru Hershey where they showed us all of Milton S. Hershey's properties and accomplishments. The tour lasted about 45 minutes. Upon completion of the tour, we saw the Hershey 3D Movie. After a quick lunch, we did some shopping in the Hershey store. Ohhh, so much chocolate. I should mention that when we checked out of our hotel this morning, the front desk gal asked if we would like chocolate for the road - who can say no to that? Then at Hershey, they gave us more and more chocolate.

After our shopping, we picked up our bags and headed south to Silver Spring, Maryland - just outside of DC, where our next hotel is. The drive took about 2 1/2 hours. We arrived by 6pm. The hotel is in downtown Silver Spring in an area I would describe very closely in all respects to the Pioneer Courthouse Square area. We grabbed a bite to eat at a Red Lobster nearby and are now back in our hotel. Michael and Evan were thoroughly bummed when they said that the pool is for people 14 and over only.

Tomorrow we're off to the Spy Museum in Washington DC. We're going to take the train downtown - it's supposed to be about 2 1/2 blocks from our hotel. We're going to see if we can also get tickets to the Bureau of Printing and Engraving. Two possible hiccups - tickets go extremely fast and they don't allow backpacks of anykind and that's what we're traveling with. Maybe they have lockers? I guess we'll find out tomorrow. Or maybe we'll see Ford's Theater (the outside - the inside is being renovated :( ) and the National Archives, which are near the Spy Museum.