Antique Cars and Candy Bars

On Saturday, the beginning of the 3-day Columbus Day weekend, Lady, her folks and I went up to Hershey, PA for the Antique Auto Club of America's annual Eastern Fall Meet. We left Little man with my folks the night before we left, since we were leaving at the crack of dawn to get to PA at the beginning of the events for the day.

My father-in-law is a Corvair enthuisiast, and an overall fan of classic cars. Tagged onto this event was a huge flea market that the women were initially excited about... however it turned out that my suspicions were correct and the flea market was all centered on car parts, car services, and car collectibles. They were quite disappointed. I however wasn't disappointed at all, I had some quality people watching at this event, lots of funny old guys to make fun of. I also enjoyed looking at the cars and I enjoyed my fair food combo of lemonade and fresh funnel cake.

This event was obviously setup by guys without any female input, the dealers were under no obligation to open their tables at any particular time. There was no obvious system or numbering code to the different dealers so using the program that was given to you to find a particular dealer was excercise in futility. We finally found the numbering system which was composed of little baseball card sized pieces of paper taped to the ground. The papers had some cryptic set of numbers and letters and really didn't give us much clue as to which direction to head. Even some of the vendors didn't know what way to point us in.

After we had enough of wandering through auto parts dealers on this cold PA morning we decided to drive through the town of Hershey and then visit the Chocolate World facility run by Hershey. Of course we raided the Chocolate World store buying a wide variety of chocolates, cakes, and other goodies.

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