"I don't think ghosts and chocolate mix very well"

And that quote from Kambria sums up our day quite well.  We headed to the land of Hershey chocolate, to the kids a most welcome change of pace from history, history, history.  Greg & I were a little disappointed that the factory tour had been discontinued (in 1972) to be replaced with a fake factory tour ride complete with constantly recycling conveyor belts and big vats of fake fluids with chocolate air freshener blowing in our faces at the appropriate moment.  It was no Henry Ford in other words.  However, the kids didn’t seem to know the difference and it was still quite informative once you get past the singing milk cows.  The best attraction was the chocolate tasting University where they gave lots of samples and taught us how to savor and distinguish the different tastes.  We were 7 of the 10 people in there, so the kids got to participate.  Greg was most excited when he heard that they had just released an all white chocolate Bliss.

We headed to Gettysburg and spent just enough time at the Visitor’s Center to realize that we will have to go back tomorrow (we only made it about half way through the museum).  They had really cool exhibits – even the younger kids had a great time.  After we got booted, we grabbed pizza and headed to a Ghost Tour – good thing too, since our guide told us that they are the #3 most haunted city in the country.  We hadn’t realized that Salem was #1, but, we are thrilled that New Orleans is #2- we'll be giving a full report in a few weeks.  The ghost walk took us into the attic of an old house where at least 6 Confederate sharp shooters were shot through the small attic window, their bodies dragged and piled in the corner.  The tour took us around to several buildings which were used as field hospitals and that are supposedly haunted with soldiers from both sides.  It was interesting and perhaps a little bit graphic.  Our guide had a tendency to dwell on how bad everything smelled with gangrenous amputated limbs lying in piles and decaying corpses everywhere.  But she had a great costume.