Even though it was the last day of our trip, we squeezed in as much as we could before we needed to be at the airport. We started at Hershey's Chocolate World.
They have a little ride that you can take that shows how some of the candy is made. It was a Disneyland type production with singing characters and we all had the jingle in our heads the rest of the day.
Of course there was plenty of shopping at the end of the tour and the boys found the biggest candies they could find.
We then went to the National Civil War Museum.
They had tons of Lincoln memorabilia including the hat box he used on his campaign trail,
and a lithograph of the emancipation proclamation from 1864.
There was a computer that you could search for soldiers in the civil war. We found three Krepps names. Pretty cool.
Last stop was Gettysburg.
We did a self guided tour and drove ourselves to the sights.
It was pretty surreal to look out on those fields and imagine what took place here. In a 3 day battle there were over 50,000 casualties.
We found the spot where President Lincoln gave his famous Gettysburg address.
He was there to dedicate the Gettysburg National Cemetery after the war. Half of the deaths were unknown soldiers. They were each represented here.
We left Gettysburg and headed for the airport. It was time to go home. It was an amazing trip. So many things fell into place and we were able to see and do so much. I'm so glad that we were able to share this experience as a family.
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