Delaware Museum of Natural History

Delaware Museum of Natural History


It has been a few years since we have been here.  The whole visit was just an hour and a half, but a nice activity to do on an easy Sunday afternoon.

Urban Air

Urban Air
Downingtown, PA


Last day of Winter break.  Took the boys over to Urban Air (new bounce place in Downingtown, PA).
Thought it would be a nice relaxing thing for the boys to do this afternoon.

But I was wrong, and I learned something I didn't know about my boys.

They are vicious dodgeball players.

"If you're going to become true dodgeballers, then you've got to learn the five d's of dodgeball: dodge, duck, dip, dive and.....dodge!"  -- Patches O Houlihan

"If you want to have dodgeball victory, you have to grab it by its haunches and you gotta hump it into submission!"  -- Patches O Houlihan

Christmas Day - Elf on the Shelf - Nerf Rhino

2016 Christmas Trip to Hershey - Day #2

2016 Christmas Trip to Hershey - Day #2


So now it is Christmas Eve.  Day #2 of our trip Chrismas trip to Hershey.  Boys were up and ready to rock at 7:30 in the morning.  Our first adventure was to go down to the Water Works at the Hershey Lodge to have some fun in the pool.

Only we were a few minutes early, so we had to wait.

So wait we did, in the arcade which was right next door.

We were at The Water Works for about 2 hours.  The boys had fun on the slides, but that was nothing compared to this Reece's Pieces water walk seen below.  I think they each tried to go across it at least 50 times (no exaggeration)

Over to Chocolate World.  We get there at 11am, do the tour, and take in an early lunch.  All so we can get to the park right when it opens at 12noon.

We get to the park, and there are no lines at the gate.  We walk right through, and start trekking all the way to the back of the park.  There is nobody back there but us.  All we see are Hershey employees.

Nate and I hop on the Wild Mouse right off the bat.  Chris didn't want to do it, so he just waited for us.  Then we made our way over to the Laff Trakk.  We did that one several times, since there was nobody in line.

The over the Wildcat.  The boys did that one a few times too.

Then over to the Howler.  We have yet to wait in line once.

We had over to the monorail next.  I made a slideshow of many pics taken from the monorail ride, along with pics taken from the skylift, and just some general pics of walking around through the park.  Just take a look at how empty the park was.

Next up, the swings

And our final roller coaster of the day, The Super Duper Looper.

Well, we have to do the Speedway again before we leave.

Finally, a game of Plinko for each boy

And Nathan ended up with a Hershey Bar, just like Chris.

A tremendous way to spend Christmas Eve and Christmas Eve Eve.  We will be back here next winter for sure.

This picture is on of the stadium.  It is just too awesome to not include on this post.

2016 Christmas Trip to Hershey - Day #1

2016 Christmas Trip to Hershey  -  Day #1


Back in October, Grammy asked the boys what they thought we should do for Christmas.  Christopher looked at her and said we should go to Hershey, cause thats tradition (like we did for Grampy's last Christmas.).  Upon hearing this news, Grammy lost her shit (in a very positive way), so up to the Hershey Lodge we went on the Friday (12/23) of Christmas weekend.  We check in to the Hershey Hotel

and then a shuttle over to the park

All lit up for Christmas

The park was somewhat crowded, so we decided to save the roller coasters for tomorrow.  We still did the cars (see below) as well as the Swings, Super Duper Looper, the Kissing Tower (just to name a few)

Can't wait to go back tomorrow, when it will be much less crowded.