Day 67

Got up early this morning and went for a walk.  Beautiful day, sun shining.  Packed up the van and first stop, the chocolate factory for a coffee and a chocolate fondue - what better way to start the day??  It was really yummy!  We decided (under duress from the kids) to do the tour through the chocolate factory, but glad we did, it was very good. 

There was a chocolate miniature village, and a giant chocolate Michelangelo's David, and games about chocolate and games where you could win chocolate.  Angela you would have loved it!!  It showed you all the different processes on how to make it and you got to press buttons and wind levers to make it all work.  There was a big chocolate waterfall and 2 chocobots (robots) that got you a chocolate (white, milk or dark) when you pressed the button (and pressed the button and pressed the button).  Then off to the next room where we watched the experts making chocolates and we got to try our hand at making different patterns of chocolate,  and then ate them of course.  

Should have stopped here and the story would have had a better ending, but no, we kept going (despite starting to feel sick from eating so much chocolate).  Anyway, then they had a machine where you could make your own creation.  Decide which type of chocolate and which ingredients you want, press the button and out pops your fully wrapped chocolate bar.  Caitlin had milk chocolate with strawberry, Josh had dark chocolate with cola and vegemite, Kaleb had white chocolate with strawberry, cola and vegemite (it was gross...but we ate it), I had white with cola and we made a milk with cola and wasabi for Ian (it was actually really nice).   Was a fantastic morning, spoiled a few hours later when we all opened our chocolate bars for tastings and Josh's one had a maggot wriggling around in it.  They did say you could make weird flavours but maggot was not one of the options!! :((

Anyway,  off to Melbourne.  Ian's making us all go to watch the Dockers tomorrow.