Hello from Mechanicsburg! Josh has fallen in love with the cornfield in the backyard. I couldn't find him. He walked off in the middle of the night mumbling "If you build it, they will come..." Since then I wasn't able to find him. Called out his name that morning, but I didn't know what to do.
After I called out that there might be chocolate, he slowly appeared out of the corn and said, "Chocolate?" We made our way to Hershey's Chocolate World. I checked their site and it said that it would be closed at 5pm! 5 PM!!! It was already 4pm when he strolled out of the corn. We booked it.
Chocolate World has a factory themed ride that's free and shows how they make their chocolate candies. It's childhood nostalgia. I find it necessary to visit this place nearly every time I visit home. I made Josh get on the ride with much reluctance. (That's not true, but it makes the above picture far more interesting.)
Jinu is clearly CRAZY excited to go on the factory ride. He has a heart-to-heart connection with it as well. Josh is too busy fighting his inner demons with sight of these:
His face showed sheer confusion and fear. Unfortunately, I sat there helpless and useless because I was mesmerized by my childhood fantasies of the theme ride being a REAL FACTORY tour.
It was over and Josh quickly recovered to his mobile picture frenzy of his free chocolate. Jinu likes chocolate too. He proved it by eating the candy right away instead of taking a picture of it (See Josh).
A trip to Chocolate World always consists of getting cookies from the bakery. Jinu and I know this. Peeps that grew up going to Chocolate World every year --know-- this. Josh didn't until he got his hands on one of these babies.
BOOM!
Perhaps you cannot appreciate the size of this mega cookie goodness called the Reese's Big Cookie. That's a big 16oz cup of whole milk joyfulness beside it. Witness the deliciousness. * cue angels singing* Jinu and I indulged with a bag of a dozen cookies of our choice.
"This might be the best cookie I've ever eaten"-Joshua Porter
As Jinu and I were busy devouring our hoard of cookies, Josh ran off in delight to look at the array of merchandise that allures all tourists. I haven't been to CW in some time, and there were many new additions. You can get your face on the bottle of Hershey Chocolate Syrup, design your own candy bar, or pay a fortune for the picture they took of you on the factory theme ride. They wouldn't even let me take a pic of the pic on the screen. What freaks. That's MY FACE on the screen. THEY DON'T OWN ME. But I didn't throw a fuss. not me. no. never.
really.
nothing happened.
Sorry for the disappointment.
**insert picture of me pulling Hershey Chocolate World employee over the counter by his hair**
Let's get back to the story...
Josh meandered off and Jinu and I found him amongst the crowd of people telling them that he used to own the Reese's company. He was telling people of the different products that were on display. His love for Reese's surpasses mine, it's truly a dream.
We stopped at the Dunkin' Donuts on premises per J.B. Porter's request. Josh is a charming man as many of you know, and he sometimes gets obsessed with ideas. One of these is Dunkin' Donuts coffee. He talks about it a lot, to the same capacity of his penchant for KFC. When we're in SF having a coffee, he begins to fantasize out loud about DD's coffee. He truly wonders how great this coffee is that his father has told him stories about and of which I (and episodes of Seinfeld) have confirmed.
"The perfect balance of cream and sugar."
--Joshua Porter
We decided to take a stroll over to the entrance of Hershey Park. I haven't been there in ages... over 10 years. A lot has changed like the damn prices. It costs nearly the same amount as Disneyland! Crazy! Even though we didn't go into the park, it was deemed by Hershey authorities that Josh is "Jolly Rancher Hard Candy".
That concludes Chocolate World. We're gonna try to be better about posting. I leave you with a picture of our drive back along the Susquehanna River.
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