Christmas Candy Lane

We've been really bad with the blog!  Christmas and Christmas prep has kept us hopping.  We'll have lots of Christmassy goodness in posts to come.  

The weekend before Christmas we went to Hershey Park with our friends, Megan and Matt.  Just a quick side note, I work with Megan and Randy works with Matt.  We kind of set them up.  Sort of.  Intentionally unintentionally.  At a Harry Potter movie.  Anyway, they've been together two and a half years now.  Yay for them and yay for us intentionally unintentionally setting them up! 

As you can tell, we were really mature while Randy drove us down the PA turnpike to Hershey.  Megan is texting me pictures of rings she picked out, while we're all chatting so the boys don't know what's going on.  Like I said, yay, right?

Despite it being really windy and snowing, there were some fun rides open.  The fast and twisty rides are even more fun when your smile freezes to your face, right?  After Randy and I squished our boney hips into a swingy sail-boat kid ride, we decided to walk around a little to feel our legs again.

Hershey really goes all-out.  They have reindeer every year for as long as I can remember.

We even found a Hanukkah-decorated tree for Randy.

For anyone who has been to Hershey, you know that no trip is complete without a visit to Chocolate World.   You can stock up on rarer Hershey candy that's hard to find in stores, like Skor bars and white chocolate Reese's cups and Kit kats.  I'm not ashamed to say that we left with close to 10 lbs of chocolate.  There's a free ride with audio-animatronic-like cows that explain how chocolate is made, and at the end they even give you a candy bar.  Yes, this truly is a magical place.

After grabbing the best fast food I think I have ever had outside of Chik-fil-a, we headed over to the Giant Center to catch a Hershey Bears game.

The way the flash hits the snow, it looks like we were really walking in a winter wonderland.  Luckily for us, it was just flurries.

For those of you not familiar (like me), The Hershey Bears are the minor league Washington Capitols team and the Bridgeport Wolfpack is the New York Islander's minor league team.   We didn't really care who won, so we cheered for the home team.  If you like hockey and you ever get a chance to go, it was inexpensive, family-friendly and clean.  I like going to events in Philly as much as anyone, but to a germophobe like me, it is nice every once in a while to go to a sporting event where there are no rabid fans or questionable bathrooms.  Also a great place to defrost your toes after walking around Hershey Park.

See the Red Robin mascot?  He's sitting in our seats, but it was ok because as you can see from above, the seats we sat in had a great view.

We hope everyone had a beautiful Christmas with their loved ones!  Randy's brother hosted and we had a Cajun Christmas.  I even made bananas foster for the first time, and didn't burn his house down.  More to come!