Well to catch you up on the past few days, we can just start with the weekend. The family had a mini-vacation this Saturday afternoon through Sunday evening. We drove to Cailler Chocolate Factory and took a tour. There were some OLD SCHOOL, black and white videos playing, but all the videos were in French, so I did not know what they were saying. Then after the videos you could walk around and learn about the factory's ins and out. There were a lot of neat things, such as a smell test of different chocolate and the history of the Nestle and Cailler gentlemen. The piece de resistance had to be the tasting. I totally felt like Charlie and those kids when they walked in to Wonka's World. NO the room was not made out of chocolate, but they had almost all there chocolates on display for you to try. The only problem was the chocolate had to stay in the room for adults. I grabs to interesting ones to try, but I was still savoring the flavor of the one, when some girl stopped me from walking out the door. She said "Excuse me miss, but you cannot take those out of the room." In my state of panic, I just chewed them up quickly and thus did not really get to take the different flavors properly.
After the chocolate wonderland, we headed to the mountains. We spent the night in a barn on the side of alps. From what I could understand the concept is part of some government thing to bridge the gap between the farmers and others. I did a little bit of research and these types of places seem to be everywhere. The local farmers have a barn where people can come and spend the night and eat (like a B&B) but you literally Hit the Hay.
Weird, eh, but a fun idea. The goats lived with under the barn, so yes there was a bit of a smell, but you get used to it. Since this place had goats that meant we had lots of goat cheese to consume. I had some, but I must say I am not a fan yet. But as some of you may know, my motto is try every food twice. I will have to let you know when I do try it again and see how I like it. All in all it was great. I was still a bit jet lag, thus I went to be super late and work super early. I opted to sleep in the car; I was afraid my snoring might be bothersome. Plus we had two other families with us the the space seemed a little to small for 15 people to sleep. When I work as early as I did, I got bored quite quickly. Once the sun finally came up, I took a brick run, then a little walk. Then I really started to get bored and started a photo/ video shoot. Thus the video below was born--"euro club rachael."
I am getting quite sleep, so will have to full you in on the video, my drive a manual/5-speed car, my day with Gemma(the youngest) and more.
peace, love and applesauce
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