We went to the Chocolate Affaire in downtown Glendale this weekend - we just call it The Chocolate Festival. Who would have thought, but we ate lots of chocolate! Emma ate chocolate covered marshmallows, I ate chocolate covered strawberries (by far the best!), and Becca ate chocolate covered bananas. Jake ate little bits of all of ours. :) Later on Ben picked up some chocolate covered peppers... no thank you! We wandered through various booths, ate food, rode down a really big slide, and got a tour of the candy/chocolate factory nearby. It was at the store there that Ben bought the chocolate covered peppers and the girls picked out a very big caramel apple. Emma gave it a go after dinner that night and decided she didn't really like it (what the heck?!) - oh well... I ate it. hehe. (Note: the pics below include lots of eating...)
Ahhh I heard about that. Bummer we missed it. Next year for sure. YOu convinced me. I can't believe she gave up that yummy apple at the end. Score for you!
ReplyDeleteI love chocolate!
ReplyDeleteI wonder if the peppermint place is still open in Alpine. If it is we can take the kids over there when you visit. You can look through a glass window to watch the women in hair nets decorate candy. The window is a floor above the workers, so it's easy to look down and see what they are doing. There's also a little candy store.
Is that a chocolate Santa? HUGE!
ReplyDeletemmmm chocolate. . . I need a big chocolate affair right now. Craig and I downed an entire bag of mini snickers last night, mmm chocolate. Tell you mom the peppermint place is still open, but you can't take tours, you can just buy candy.
ReplyDeleteI was just there on friday. they closed tours years ago, we go and buy their seconds for cheap. . not of chocolate, because i make my own chocolate candies, of other stuff. mostly of flowers to decorate my chocolate with.
I will pass on the message to my mom- thanks Charis! We were chatting on the phone and brought up that place and wondered if it was even still around.
ReplyDeleteMust get to the store now and get chocolate, mouth watering. Thanks a lot Susan:)
ReplyDeleteWhere was this at? So much fun. Chocolate is my weakness. If I had known... I would've been there! For sure!
ReplyDeleteok. so I feel dumb now. Just noticed the sign in your first picture saying Glendale. Nevermind my question! :)
ReplyDeletehow fun, i love chocolate! hey how do you hear about all the fun stuff going on around you, i swear i never have any idea of anything happening where I live
ReplyDeleteYummy! We went to this a few years ago....and we had chocolate dipped cheesecake on a stick.....mmmmmmmmmmmm!
ReplyDeleteerica- we saw several people wandering around with chocolate covered cheesecake and I so wanted some but we had already bought so much! Definitely next year!
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