Almost Home..

We are in Nashville tonight in a lovely hotel room. Our friends, the Richardsons, wanted to put us up in a hotel tonight - and they made us a reservation in a lovely hotel.. so once again - I feel like I am in the lap of luxury. It makes me really hope that my house is still clean when I get home tomorrow! I wish I had brand new sheets on my bed! ha ha.
So yesterday when we left Philadelphia, we decided to drive through Hershey!!! Britt LOVES chocolate so we thought this would be like a pilgrimage for him. It was really a great trip! The drive was so beautiful. Lots of farmland - we even saw some Amish folk driving their buggy down the road. It made me think.. so many people go to Lancaster just to gawk at the Amish. I wonder if it bothers them to be such a tourist attraction. The country was lovely though. The trees are all turning up there. Now that we are in Tennessee - we can tell that the trees here aren't turning as much as they were up there.
Hershey was great! We went through a little tour that shows how the chocolate is made and we saw a 3D film that Elijah really loved. He got to package his own kisses, and we picked up a couple of things. It was a nice short stop on our long trip.
We drove from there to Lexington Virginia. I know I sound like a broken record - but Virginia is so lovely! Now.. we had a little adventure on the way. We used a google map to get directions to the hotel we were staying in last night. They were SO WRONG! We drove down this road that looked like it was going nowhere. The next instruction was to turn down "Poor House" road... We followed the directions perfectly until we went through a tunnel - and ended up on a dirt road in the middle of nothing!! No houses, no nothing!!! We quickly turned around and headed back to the highway. I called the hotel and got directions from them instead - and we made it to the hotel just fine. Apparantly we weren't the only ones who went down the road less traveled to middle of NOTHING!!! It was worth a good laugh.. :)
Today we got up and began our journey on to Nashville. Once we got here and checked in to our hotel, we went over to the outlet mall that took the place of Opryland.. (I think it's sad that I didn't even know that Opryland was no longer in existence!) They have an Aquarium Restaurant there and Elijah was in heaven!!! They had several sharks, stingrays, eels and other fish in the HUGE tank.. He loved it!!
We are ready to be at home tomorrow..