This is a picture of some of our shells we picked up along the beach shore. After the kids washed them off, they put them on towels in the Trump Hotel to dry. We ended up with about 4 large towels full of shells. The kids have a huge glass container at home they collect beach sand and shells in. So they could hardly wait to get home to put these shells in their collection. By the way it ended up being to small so mom bought another one for them to fill up.

Atlantic City Beach

We drove from Hershey Park to Atlantic City to go to the beach. We stayed in the Trump Marina Hotel. This picture is of all the shells at the beach that we found. We were so excited and the kids couldn't believe all of the shells. We spent a very long time picking out all the shells to take home. The funny part was we did it in the rain. It rained the entire day so we just decided to get wet. It was worth it to have all the shells.
After we had bag fulls of shells they were covered in sand so we decided to give them a wash down in the tub. The kids had a blast getting in the tub to wash all the beach sand off the shells.

Another picture of all the beautiful shells along the shore of the Atlantic City beach in New Jersey!

Atlantic City Beach shells

We still can't believe all the shells at the beach. We found a lot of clam and oysters shells that were in perfect condition. Kyle, Kallee, and Kody even found a couple of Hermit crab shells to take home to their crabs Sparkey, Snap, and Speedy.

Hershey Park

Hershey factory Line!

While at the Hershey Factory they put the kids to work on the line! Of course, they didn't mind working for yummy chocolate!

Kallee could handle this job as long as she could make sure the kisses tasted O.K. every now and then. She just loved working on the Hershey kiss line!

Even Kody thought it was fun putting the Gear under the machine and catching the kisses. Afterwards, watching the shrink wrap around it!

The Sweetest Place on Earth

Hershey Park

Kerestes Family Vacation

This year for our vacation we went to Hershey Park and met Kevin (my brother), Rebecca, Jadeyn, and Jessica (my sister). We decided to stay at their Lodge which was so much fun. Hershey motto is "The sweetest place on Earth." Just like our son Kyle said, "Mom, it really is the sweetest place on Earth." Kallee also agreed. Never in her life did she get to eat chocolate with every meal.

The park was awesome. It had a theme park with rides, waterpark, zoo, museum, huge store, tour of how they make chocolates, and rose garden. We just loved being all together.

The big highlights were we learned where Mom and Jessica complete whimps. We stayed back and let everyone else ride the coasters. Believe it or not Kallee and Kyle went on everyone that they could. We couldn't believe how brave they were. I asked Kyle, "Do you like to be scared?" He said, "Mom I love it and the Comet nearly scared me to death."

We had a wonderful time and can't wait to go back again someday. Not only did we eat chocolate everyday after I unpacked I am still finding Hershey kiss wrappers on my floor. They must of been in pockets of pants, shirts, our luggage, and who know where else but it's a fun reminder of all the fun we had.

Thanks for coming with us Kevin, Rebecca, Jadeyn, and Jessica!