Sunday, October 8, 2006
After Sunday morning services at Chestnut Street Chapel in Gap, we packed up and left Lancaster County and drove west to Hershey. We made a stop at Chocolate World, rode the simulated tour ride, shopped the store, and then went into town. While walking next to the real Hershey factory, the smell of chocolate was so strong you could almost taste it while gulping air. We drove around the beautiful campus of Milton Hershey School and then traveled the short distance to our hotel near the Harrisburg airport. We enjoyed dinner the Outback Steakhouse then tried to get some sleep before our flight home at 6 AM Monday morning.

It’s been a great week with many terrific memories, but definitely marred by the one we’d prefer had never happened: the incomprehensible shooting of the innocent children at the Amish schoolhouse the previous Monday.