Hershey Day 3

We're up and ready by 9:00 this morning. Karen is soooo good and has already been to the fitness center and taken a walk through the woods. This morning we're going to enjoy our complimentary breakfast in the circular dining room.

On the way to the dining room we pass beautiful bouquets of flowers. 

There is a 20 minute wait to be seated so we roam the patio. The baskets of petunias are almost as big as Diane!

 

Karen takes the opportunity to relax by a flower basket.

And then the "your table is ready" pager in my back pocket vibrates my tush and it's time to head in for breakfast.  The circular dining room is beautiful.  A garden trellis is artfully painted along the ceiling and the floor to ceiling windows, which line 3/4 of the room, have stained glass floral borders.  The windows overlook the formal gardens and the view is lovely.  We are lucky and get a table right by the window. 



The ceiling of the circular dining room at the Hotel Hershey.




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 Please lay on your left side to view this picture so you can enjoy the view as it should be.

The breakfast buffet is 5-star.  There are two omelet chefs, servers constantly fill silver dishes with all sorts of goodies, a Belgian waffle station, breakfast meats of every imaginable type, and of course, chocolate!  Chocolate is available for almost everything. 

Diane tries the fresh fruit, a Belgian waffle, and a ham steak.

Karen goes for the healthy breakfast - fruit, muesli, and an egg white & vegetable omelet. 

Bette Jo, who we quickly discovered has quite the sweet tooth, is having the chocolate lover's dream breakfast.  There is dark chocolate bread pudding, a chocolate eclair, a Carmel pecan cinnamon roll, a cherry white chocolate pancake, and a Belgian waffle smothered with chocolate chips, whipped cream and a mixed berry sauce. 

Bette Jo is in chocolate nirvana!

I have eaten all of my food before I think to take a picture - oops!  In addition to my bacon, mushroom, onion & cheese omelet I think I tried a little bit of everything.  I'm not getting back on the scale in front of a camera any time soon!

We finish off our chocolate breakfast feast with, of course, a cup of hot chocolate. 

After the enormous breakfast, we need to walk and burn off a few thousand calories so we stroll the formal gardens.

The koi pond is huge.



The koi are huge too!  I think they must get the left over chocolate breakfast items from the buffet.



Bette Jo, Diane, Karen, Cathie

 The garden is filled with beautiful dahlias, begonias, petunias and impatiens. 

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while viewing this picture to appreciate the beautiful view.

We have probably only walked off half of our breakfast calories and we still have a few hours before the spa so we walk over to the Hershey Gardens.

Our tour guide is a little scary...

 

We take lots of pictures in the gardens.  Don't panic, I'm not going to show them all to you.  Here are a few of the best. 



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From left to right while laying on your right side...
Karen, Bette Jo, Diane

They even named a plant after Diane!

And then it's off to the spa.... (for the sake of our viewing audience, no pictures were taken at the spa.)

a hot chocolate bath for Bette Jo

a Rose Garden Aromatherapy Message for Karen and Cathie

a Hot Stone Massage for Diane

and "sweet feet" pedicures for all.

Several very relaxing and rejuvenating hours later here are our "sweet feet"