Month: August 2016

USA Surprises: Wildlife Prairie Park – Peoria, Illinois.

This week has been quite different. We have been staying in a small city in Illinois, called Bloomington. We chose Bloomington in part because it was a good location (2hrs in either direction would get us to either St Louis or Chicago). The other reason was because it was the […]

Gettysburg – Four Score and Seven Years Ago

One of the most incredible days we have spent while travelling - doing the Gettysburg Battlefield Tour.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so […]

Hershey’s Chocolate World

On Wednesday we went to the Hershey’s Chocolate World in Pennsylvania and we did the make your own chocolate bar.  There were three steps we had to complete: First we had to choose a base chocolate, the candy inside and design a wrapper We had to watch our chocolate go through the […]