Parker loves chocolate world. Chocolate World is part of Hershey Chocolate that has a little train ride that shows you the process of how they make candy. It takes maybe 10 minutes. Hershey is about 2 hours from our house, 1 way. This was his one request that he kept asking about. I couldn't justify the trip for such a short activity. I was on the lookout for something else to do in the area that would make our trip worth while.
So earlier in the summer while we were at Delgrosso's a lady was telling me about this place called Lake Tobias. When I googled it, I knew this was the answer. Lake Tobias was a short drive from Hershey and looked to be a lot of fun.
Lake Tobias is a wildlife refuge owned privately in the middle of PA. They give safari tours on an old school bus that has had the top cut off. We took the tour at high noon, with out sunscreen. Not a smart move on my part. The boys did ok, it was myself that ended up with quite the sunburn on my chest and head!
The animals are quite friendly. We even fed a few of them right out of our hands.
There was a large variety of animals to see. These guys wanted to come on the bus, but their big horns made them dangerous.
This is a European type of deer.
I think these guys are water buffalos.
This Emu was the greeter. He stood by the gate both as we entered and exited.
They even had some lions and tigers caged up to view as well.
There was a petting zoo. The animals were so overvisited and fed they hardly wanted to eat when we went. They should have posted a sign about the goats though. I had one take a bite out of my dress.
The boys loved Lake Tobias and want to go back next year.We went to chocolate world and did the 10 min ride on how chocolate is made. Didn't take any pictures of this. We had to park really far away because Chocolate World shares the parking lot with Hershey Park.
We finished off the day with dinner at Macaroni Grill. I had seen this by the Interstate when we would go past Harrisburg. I looked it up online, previewed the menu and decided I wanted to try it out. It was an Italian restaurant. The food was so good. I tried gelatto for the first time and I loved it. The kitchen was also exposed so you could watch the chef preparing food. Very entertaining.
Our 2nd roadtrip was a week later. We went to Morgantown WV. We stayed with some old friends. The boys were delighted that they had a swimming pool. Our host and hostess made us feel welcome and gave us a bed time snack of milk and brownies. The next morning they fed us pancakes for breakfast before we started off on our day.
We went to WVU campus and I showed the boys where I had my classes. We visited with Granny Rayburn at the bookstore and did a little shopping for some fun WVU items. Took a PRT (Personal Rapid Transit) ride to visit Grandpa Rayburn at his office. Met a friend for lunch. And then finished off the day with some shopping and playing at the mall. In the evening we met the grandparents for dinner and then played with the dogs before heading home. A long day, but a fun day.
Did I mention I got to drive the Crown Victoria on these trips? The A/C was out in our Nissan and the Police car gets better gas mileage than the truck. We road along in comfort. We had so much fun. Glad we were able to take the trips.
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