Day 6 – Today, the initial plan was to go to Harrisburg to visit the National Civil War Museum, then head over to Hershey. Since Kelsey (and I!) were so disappointed about Boyd’s Bears being closed, I checked with Kev and Matthew to see if they wouldn’t mind if we altered the plans a little bit. We didn’t tell Kelsey that we were planning on heading to Boyd’s Bears that morning!!

We drove down to Gettysburg for the third day in a row. Kelsey was tired from the day before so she ended up napping in the car on the way down. This worked out perfect! We drove into the parking lot at Boyd’s Bears and she was still asleep. We opened the car door for her to see where we were and the biggest smile appeared on her face! She jumped up and down and even said ‘thank you’. We had a great time visiting here. It is probably a good thing this is not close to where we live or I might end up with a frequent shopper card. There are three floors of bears and a restaurant with more bears in the basement level.

Once we finally finished at Boyd’s (I found a couple more things I just had to have!), we started our drive towards Harrisburg. We found the National Civil War Museum and began our self guided tour. I bought Matthew a scavenger hunt guide that he had to fill in with answers he found throughout the museum. The two story museum gives an unbiased timeline of the events and happenings of the Civil War. We were very impressed with this museum and would highly recommend it to anyone (and don’t forget to ask for your ‘teacher’ discount!).

By this time, it was time to start thinking about dinner. I suggested that we head over to Hershey, get some dinner, and decide if we thought it was worth making an additional trip up the following day. Once we found the town and the park, we walked over to the Kit Kat Café for dinner. We were not very impressed with our meal and once we started walking around the shopping area, we were not very impressed with that either. We took a couple of pictures, bought some personalized chocolate bar wrappers (that were on sale!) and started back for the car. Talk about a money pit! We didn’t need to see the history of Hershey since we had been to the factory in Oakdale many times before it closed down. I wasn’t about to pay $20 for a T-shirt or buy any other overpriced souvenir or chocolate item that we really didn’t need anyway!

We were able to get back to the B&B early enough to enjoy a couple of cookies we had bought at Boyd’s earlier in the day. Kelsey was able to ride around on the little tractor outside and we were all able to relax before bed.

Tomorrow, we plan on heading to Amish Country!