Put it here since it's not a WDW TR. Thought people might be interested to hear about Hershey Park.
First a general overview. Obviously, the theme is Hershey everything. Interesting thing though, I assumed the Hershey theme was strictly commercial. As it turns out Milton S. Hershey was quite the visionary, not unlike Walt Disney. Hershey opened the park in 1907 (arguably the oldest continuously operating theme park in the nation) for his factory employees and their families. He also built an idyllic town for them, it's like something from a movie. The street lights are Hershey's Kisses. I won't bore anyone with a Hershey history lesson, but his story is very fascinating. More about the park for those interested.
We live in Hershey, PA (just outside, but still considered Hershey). We live maybe a mile and a half from the park, as the crow flies. We're fortunate enough to have season passes and we make full use of them. Sometimes we'll just got to refill out bucket o' kettle korn:)
Tonight we both had one of those days at work and wanted to go relieve some stress. We changed into comfortable clothes, and shoes, grabbed our kettle korn bucket, refillable mugs and headed out. We got there about six just as throngs of people were leaving. That is a great feeling; heading in as TONS of people are heading out. It's like I can see little numbers over the heads of ever person indicating that extra minute I would have had to wait in line 
As we entered the park we decided to head straight for the Great Bear, a simply amazing inverted coaster. It's older, but one of the best I've ever been on. We waited an extra ten minutes or so to sit in the front, as per usual, and it was worth every scream and giggle! Then my wife decided we should grab a bite to eat. She wanted to try the Gourmet Grille, so we went in and checked out the menu. There were a number of things that looked good, but neither of us could say no to the taco salad. Several people in front of us had ordered it and it looked amazing. Turns out, it was! One of the best park meals we've ever had. Had a fresh taco 'bowl', lettuce, taco meat (beef or chicken), black beans, cheese, sour cream, salsa and you could have it made how you wanted (with or without any of these). Wasn't the cheapest ($10), but it was out of this world.
After we ate, we didn't want to immediately go on any of the big rides. We walked around, enjoying the scenery, and fed the ducks a bit. We also caught a bit of one of the animal shows which was cute. Then we decided to head over to the Reese's Xtreme Cup Challenge. It's similar to Buzz Lightyear at WDW. You have the Reese's team versus the Kisses team. It's not quite an well done as WDW equivalent (as far as the them and imagineering:) ) but it is very fun. We always have a great time on this ride...especially since I won this time 
Then we walked around trying to decide what to do next. I told my wife I wanted to go on Storm Runner before we left. Looking at the time, we decided to go ahead and start that way since we both have to work in the morning. We got there and the line was not bad at all. We got in the line for the front row, which we had not done yet for this ride. Man, it was insane! It's one of my favorite rides in general, but sitting in the front is ten times scarier on this ride (check out the pictures). It has some very unique elements and it is a dream ride for a coaster lover. Then with a sore face from the huge grin and a sore throat from scream/giggling like a four year-old being mercilessly tickled, we headed toward the exit and fresh kettle korn. There was no line for the kettle korn and we refilled our bucket for $1.80 
We had a great little trip. Seemed like every time we got in a line, it got twice as long, right after we got in line. Happened that way all the way up to the kettle korn. All in all, a great time.
edit: Forgot to mention, on the way out we stopped at Chocolate World to do some birthday shopping for our neice. Chocolate World has pretty much every single product Hershey makes. Not just chocolate either. Deliciousness from all over the place including the full lines of Jolly Ranchers, Twizzlers, Bubble Yum, etc. We had fun and got some good stuff for the kiddo we were shopping for.
are convenient. When I was in Nashville, I went to most of the parks within driving distance (including Cedar Point which is not close) and here in Hershey, well I just couldn't resist season passes. Going to try to go to most of the east coast parks while we're in this part of the country. If I lived closer to WDW or had more money and vacation time we'd go there more often. 
