Pennsylvania

This summer has been all about weddings. Between June and November this year, we are planning on going to a total of five. So far, we have been to two.

In mid June, we went to Philadelphia for Melissa's wedding and then spent a few days driving around near Hershey. There is a lot of history in Pennsylvania, and a lot of towns with funny names like Bird in Hand, Paradise, Blue Ball and Intercourse. We did go through Intercourse, which was much less funny once we got out of the car and looked around. We bought some apple butter and "I love Intercourse, PA" keychains and were on our way.

After nearly flunking out of pretzel making school at the Sturgis Pretzel house, we got to Hershey, which was fun and chocolaty at the same time. We went to Hershey park, and rode rides including the "Supper-Dooper-Looper" and the "Reses Peanut Butter Cup Xtreme Challenge", which actually consisted of Ruth and I shooting a laser gun at cartoon skateboarding teenagers. But at the end we got a peanut butter cup with carmel, so we quickly decided it was worth doing twice.