Red Tailed Hawk

Prairie Dog

Golden Eagle

A Porcupine hanging out and looking cool.

At this point, my camera battery ran out and so I don't have any more pictures. We took a trolley ride around the town that was really fun. The "conductors" were actors who talked about the history of Hershey. Well, one of them talked about the history while the other one ran off the trolley early on because he forgot his camera. Then all through the ride, various historical people showed up at each stop and shared some of the history with us. Surprisingly they all looked and sounded somewhat similar to our original conductor. ;-) We were also treated to songs whenever we weren't driving by anything of interest. Our original conductor finally caught up to us just before the end of the ride, but he had already missed the trip. Supposedly it was his first day and so he apologized for running off and then told us that we had no idea what he had gone through while finding us.

Our flights the next morning were at 6 and 6:30 am the next morning so we planned to leave at 4am. Rather than get just a few hours of sleep, 5 of us guys decided to try to do an overnighter for the fun of it. We made it fine until the next morning, but it was increasingly hard to stay awake the next morning during the flight and drive home. Instead of getting a bunch of taxis to the airport, we hired a trolley from the taxi service. We got a call from the security guy that morning telling us that our taxi driver was there and that he had told him to pull around to our building. When we got downstairs with our luggage, we found that he was very surprised when a trolley came around. Apparently he wasn't expecting that at 4 am! We had fun imitating the conductors from the previous day's trolley ride and sang songs half of the way to the airport. The driver seemed a little amused.

We tried playing Phase 10 again on the way back, but some of us started falling asleep; Japheth even managed it in the middle of his turn. We were fine as long as there was activity, but sitting in comfortable seats with nothing going on made it hard to stay alert. Our flight arrived whithin a few minutes of the other group and so we all piled into a shuttle to the parking lot. The ride home was fairly uneventfull from what I saw, although I took a nap during the last hour or so.