Katelyn’s First Road Trip! (August 3, 2010)

Today we embarked on an overnight adventure with Katelyn (our 10 year old daughter). We found some factory tours we thought she might enjoy. The first stop on our road trip was the Wolfgang Factory in York, PA. This is a company that sells chocolate (a lot of schools use them as fund raisers). We had to wear hairnets and Doug had to wear a beard net! Too funny! It is a rather small business – we toured three small buildings where the candy making process took place. It’s a free tour and you get a couple samples of their candy after the tour. They also have a small area of seconds, so we got some of that, of course! :)





We were getting a little hungry, so on our way to the next destination, we stopped at a small place to eat called Collinsville Drive In. We ate outside at a picnic table with a nice mountain view in the distance. Katelyn had her first pizza burger – she loved it, we split some fries, and each had a milkshake. Good food at nice prices! When the one worker brought out our food, he asked us if Sandy was ours. He said they like to take pictures of unusual cars that come to their place. Of course, we let him take a picture – not sure what he’s going to do with it??





Next we drove to the Lancaster area – Nottingham to be exact. This is the location of the Herr’s Factory. This was a much bigger place. We got to see how they made pretzels, nachos, and chips. We got to taste chips right out of the oven – they were still warm. Very tasty! This tour was also free and we got a free bag of chips. At their little store they had all different kinds of their products (all kinds of flavors of chips). We decided to get a couple of each kind of snack and then do a taste test down at the beach next week! We thought that would be fun!
We left here and drove to the campground – Mill Bridge Village Camp Resort. We checked in and found out the pool was closing soon. We were all pretty hot so we decided to take a dip. Katelyn met some kids from New York that she played with for a little. We started to get pretty hungry, so we went back to the campsite. Doug figured out a way to make a clothesline using Sandy and the utility post so we could hang our wet towels and bathing suits. K and I got her “bed” ready. She was pretty excited to sleep up top! I finished getting the rest of the stuff situated while she went out to help Doug start the fire. He gave her some pointers and together they got a pretty good fire started! We roasted hot dogs and marshmallows. It was fun. We had some visitors of the animal kind. Who would have guessed there would be a family of cats hanging out with us?? The kittens were very cute, but we didn’t want to encourage them! They almost jumped into the Westy – in fact, at one point Katelyn said one was in it, but them jumped out! We had fun at the campfire, then went inside Sandy. We played Uno (Doug won), then headed for a last bathroom run before it was lights out. ~Jess