{"id":718,"date":"2005-07-31T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-31T11:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=718"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"hershey-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2005\/07\/hershey-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Hershey Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We decided what to do yesterday afternoon, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hersheypa.com\/attractions\/hersheypark\/index.asp\">Hershey Park<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Because it was afternoon already, we planned to grab some half-priced &#8220;after sunset&#8221; tickets, which let you be in the park from 5pm until closing at 11 (the times change seasonally). There were definitely more people than I expected, and it was hotter out than we thought. Spent a lot of time walking around, went on a few rides, paid $2.50 for a 20oz bottle of bad water (ok, I&#8217;m a water snob, it was Aquafina, icky).<\/p>\n<p>The best part of the trip was visiting their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hersheypa.com\/attractions\/zooAmerica\/\">Zoo America<\/a> part of the park. Maybe we should have just gone to a real zoo instead %) But it was cool, got to see cute wild cats, wolves, snakes, Bison, prairie dogs, and a whole lot of scary birds (I nearly jumped out of my skin when I saw the Golden Eagle with a, wing span of 7 feet!). And it wasn&#8217;t crowded in that part of the park, very relaxing.<\/p>\n<p>I guess I don&#8217;t like amusement parks. I come to this realization almost every time we go to one. I love rollar coasters, but standing in line for an hour for a 60 second ride is insane, especially when it&#8217;s hot out. And there are too many people in general, walking through the masses is so yucky.<\/p>\n<p>The line for the chocolate factory tour wasn&#8217;t long, so we rode on that before we left. Ended up getting out of the park around 10pm.<\/p>\n<p>On the way home we stopped at Unos in Exton for an 11pm dinner, we were both so hungry, eating in the park is absurdly expensive and we didn&#8217;t bring much cash.<\/p>\n<p>Got home around midnight, I was exhausted and went right to bed. Mmmm sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We decided what to do yesterday afternoon, go to Hershey Park! Because it was afternoon already, we planned to grab some half-priced &#8220;after sunset&#8221; tickets, which let you be in the park from 5pm until closing at 11 (the times change seasonally). There were definitely more people than I expected, and it was hotter out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}