Chocolate Chocolate Chocolate

Saturday morning 10:00 - time for my walking chocolate tour.  What did this entail you ask, well let me fill you in.  There were 8 of us in total including our tour guide and we started out eating churro's with 6 different dipping sauces (caramel, Nutella, dark chocolate, white chocolate, milk chocolate and one other one that I can't remember).  Talk about delic!

We hit up a bar and drank some chocolate alcohol licquor (with other ingredients), yum!

We went to another place and drank a few different hot chocolate drinks in shot glasses and then had some cake.  The green one was green tea cake (can't remember the official name, but I took one bite and spit it out--it was el grosso, the white one and chocolate one were pretty tasty though).

Ross (who you should know by now), Claire (my boss's wife) and myself.  

One of the places gave us quite a few things to try.  In total we went to 6 places and by the end we were stuffed.  We learned the history of chocolate, how it was made and the different ways that different cultures make/use it.  Our group was very diverse, had the three of us, two Japanese students over for school, and two ladies from India and then our tour guide who was a local.  I now know where the good chocolate hot spots are in town:). It was 3 hours long and flew by, we were all sad when it was over.  I was in a sugar coma when I was done and needed a nap!  No--this was not a healthy morning (and yes....Florian knew about it and I'm sure he's gonna work me out extra hard this week to make me pay for it).

After spending the afternoon recooperating from my sugar OD, I met up with some co-workers and went kayaking on the Brisbane River in the evening.  We went kayaking from 7-9 and then when we got back we had a big bbq (well that's what they called it).  Food/drinks/hanging out.  It was so awesome kayaking down the river.  We all had lights on our kayak's and we went way down the river and went under this bridge (this pic was taken one night at dinner, but wanted you to know what the bridge looks like).  Received my first war wound of living here....had to take our flip flops off to go kayaking and somehow when I was walking across the dock I managed to get a huge splinter in my toe.  Reached down, pulled it and moved on with the evening.  As I was going down the river I felt this pain in my toe and I said that must have been a big piece of wood that I pulled out.  When we got back and I went to put my flip flops back on and looked at my toe, low and behold there was still a piece of wood in my toe.  They gave me a little blade (from the first aid kit) to try to dig it out but then it started bleeding so I put a band aid on it and went on with the night.  When I woke up on Sunday I started thinking what if I get an infection and they have to cut off my toe--that would be terrible, how would I walk (yes....crazy things like this go through my head).  I calmed myself down, got out the tweezers and went to work.  I no longer have the piece of wood in my toe (thank goodness).  My toe is sore, but it will heal in a day or two.    

Somehow I didn't make the picture but the guys on the left are my friends I went with, Phil, Dave and Brad.  

I feel like maybe I kayaked off a few pieces of the chocolate I ate earlier in the day, hehe.

Another fun day in Australia!!!