My wonderful friend, who's also the leader of our church youth group, organized the tour for all of us. Hard to say who was more excited: the moms or the kids. (The dads mostly just tolerated the event--and the enthusiastic squeals of their family members. However, they were rewarded with the occasional free sample of dark-chocolate-covered cashews, chocolate-peppermint cookies and milk-chocolate-dipped strawberries for their patience.)
Wanna see one of the coolest things ever? The famous George Seurat masterpiece painted in chocolate! Now that's art!!
And, truly, nothing says Liberty to me like 800 pounds of solid chocolate...
Wishing everyone who reads this a Happy Easter, a Happy Passover & a Happy Spring! May there be many chocolate treats in your weekend :-).
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Thanks for sharing pictures, Marilyn! Very cool. Have a wonderful holiday weekend!
I just remembered: I had a dream with your book in last night. I think I was at school again, or just visiting and I was reading through the set texts list for English and they were all the standards -Wuthering Heights, Lord of the Flies etc. - and then I saw your book was in there too and was all happy and telling people "My friend wrote that book!!"
Have a great Easter xx
P.S. If it says I commented twice it's because the grammar in the first one was appalling so I deleted it. Obsessive? Me? Never!
My favorite painting done in chocolate???? Sounds like pure heaven to me! I'm jealous that I didn't get to enjoy the choco-stravaganza with you!! :)
Happy Easter!
Thank you, Robin! Hope you have a fabulous holiday weekend, too, and a lovely vacation!!
Amethyst (Kate :), I LOVE your dream!! Thanks so much for sharing it with me (although it's definitely in the realm of fantasy to share shelf space with classics like that!) Hope you have a great Easter, too, sweetie :-).
Brett~I didn't know that was your favorite painting! This place hosts tours on the weekends, you know. 1-5pm... I could give you the address... (Do I hear you saying, "Roadtrip!"?)
Oh, yum! Now you're making me hungry for chocolate, and I was already having so much trouble resisting! Is 10 a.m. too early to give in to a chocolate craving?
How fun that must have been. Do they keep it cold in there to keep everything from melting?
YUM! Wish I could have gone!
Thanks for the pics and Happy Easter!
Mmmmm....chocolate. Thanks for sharing your adventure Marilyn dear. It looked educational as well as yummy and that's always a winning combination for me. ;-).
That is a lot of chocolate!!
Caryn~you're asking the wrong person on that because, in my book, it's never too early or too late for chocolate :).
L.A.~I'm not sure if they had temperature controls (I didn't notice any devices), but all of their chocolate statues and paintings were kept behind sealed glass, plus each of them were coated with a kind of chocolate shellac to protect the piece. The combination of those measures, in addition to a fairly cool building, probably keeps them safe.
Nancy~you would love it! Happy Easter to you, too :).
Pamala~thanks for helping to put an educational spin on the tour (it truly WAS a learning experience), but I know the truth: for me, it was really ALL about the taste-testing experience!
Barrie~you'd have been shocked by how much they used! I'm waiting until X-mas to post this one, but there was also a 500-pound Santa :).
So if I ate the chocolate painting and the chocolate statue of liberty, would I be ingesting art and history, thus getting smarter? Hmm, may have to go investigate...
Pamela~truly, I love the way your mind works!!
Hey, that painting was on my Psychology 100 textbook in 1978!
Cindy~It's a great one, isn't it? I must say, I like it even better now :).
Wow! Very cool! :-)
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