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Chocolate Day
Jul. 1st, 2008 05:28 pmSo, first today we went and had truly enormous breakfast at a restaurant whose singular goal in existence seemed to be to stuff us.
Then, we went to the Hershey Old Car Museum. I can't tell you about the inside because I didn't, actually, go in. Dad is the car person, not me, and I'm frankly sick of going to old car museums because he feels the need to look at cars that lack fuel injectors and seat belts. I sat outside and dozed until the tired went away, and then read until the family emerged.
Anyway. Then to Chocolate World.
Singing. Animatronic. Cows.
Also, free chocolate at the end. And a monstrous store full of, you guessed it, novelty pillows, spoons, and teacups. Okay, there was some chocolate. I consider it a miracle that we left with less than five pounds, honestly.
Then we drove on over to Lancaster. I understand that the original Lancaster is somewhere in England, which is odd because this Lancaster and surrounds are populated by the descendants of German immigrants, not English ones. This is the origin of the phrase "Pennsylvania Dutch," who have nothing to do with fair trade and almost pathological social acceptance; instead, they have to do with a mispronunciation of the word doitch, which is German for German.
Dinner was sushi, and by definition delicious.
The plan for tomorrow is to go learn some stuff about the Amish and also visit a life-size replica of the Ark of the Covenant. Dad, who will be wearing his Indiana Jones hat, is almost certainly going to making bad cracks about Nazis, dead gods, and adventuring archaeologists.
Now, a request. At some point in the last forty-eight hours, I ran across a short list of recently recommended slash. Something of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tygati's was on it, and it was broken up by slash and femmeslash in several categories, including art and original fiction. At first, I thought it was the Skinny, but when I looked back, that was not it. Normally, this wouldn't bother me; things come and go all the time on the Internet. However, there was very interesting story about a young man who was a time traveler and kept going back in time to tell himself how to invent time travel faster and I can't find this list or story. I'd like both, but if the story is what you can dig up, that's fine too.
As a preemptive award, have some dancing hamsters. And the borg remix.
Then, we went to the Hershey Old Car Museum. I can't tell you about the inside because I didn't, actually, go in. Dad is the car person, not me, and I'm frankly sick of going to old car museums because he feels the need to look at cars that lack fuel injectors and seat belts. I sat outside and dozed until the tired went away, and then read until the family emerged.
Anyway. Then to Chocolate World.
Singing. Animatronic. Cows.
Also, free chocolate at the end. And a monstrous store full of, you guessed it, novelty pillows, spoons, and teacups. Okay, there was some chocolate. I consider it a miracle that we left with less than five pounds, honestly.
Then we drove on over to Lancaster. I understand that the original Lancaster is somewhere in England, which is odd because this Lancaster and surrounds are populated by the descendants of German immigrants, not English ones. This is the origin of the phrase "Pennsylvania Dutch," who have nothing to do with fair trade and almost pathological social acceptance; instead, they have to do with a mispronunciation of the word doitch, which is German for German.
Dinner was sushi, and by definition delicious.
The plan for tomorrow is to go learn some stuff about the Amish and also visit a life-size replica of the Ark of the Covenant. Dad, who will be wearing his Indiana Jones hat, is almost certainly going to making bad cracks about Nazis, dead gods, and adventuring archaeologists.
Now, a request. At some point in the last forty-eight hours, I ran across a short list of recently recommended slash. Something of
tygati's was on it, and it was broken up by slash and femmeslash in several categories, including art and original fiction. At first, I thought it was the Skinny, but when I looked back, that was not it. Normally, this wouldn't bother me; things come and go all the time on the Internet. However, there was very interesting story about a young man who was a time traveler and kept going back in time to tell himself how to invent time travel faster and I can't find this list or story. I'd like both, but if the story is what you can dig up, that's fine too.As a preemptive award, have some dancing hamsters. And the borg remix.
