Chocolate Festival!

This is one of the many reasons I love Italy - a little thing called a Chocolate Festival.  Yes, it is as amazing as it sounds. 

Basically, the main square had a bunch of different vendors, each selling assortments of all the chocolate you could imagine.

My friend Jessica and I had to do several walk-throughs before we could decide what to buy.  To help our decision making, we had to take the edge off our chocolate cravings.  We started with a yummy little treat that was like a triple-layer mousse, with dark, white, and milk chocolate.  Naturally, that disappeared before I had a chance to take a picture.  The next bit of deliciousness though, strawberries with chocolate and cream, lasted long enough to snap a photo.

I didn't come home with as much chocolate as I thought I would, which is probably a good thing, but here's what I didn't eat for breakfast.  Just kidding, sort of...

 Now off to decide which one to eat next...

Springtime in the Veneto

Hi everybody!  Prepare to be inundated by blog posts in the next few days...we have a lot to catch up on!  To begin, we had the pleasure of Donovan's dad visiting us for a couple weeks in April.  His visit overlapped with block leave, so we were able to spend a lot of vacation time together.

First priority, stocking up on wine.

Enomas Muraro is one of our local wineries.  The best part about it?  For a little over a euro, you can fill up a liter jug.  Cheap and delicious.

We also strolled through downtown Vicenza and ducked into a few cappuccino shops to dodge the Spring showers.

Donovan bought me some flowers to liven up the house for Spring.

And Donovan and Rob went for a very rainy hike in Lumignano, just a short ten minute drive from our house.

After spending a few days in Vicenza, we decided to venture off to Arco (near Lake Garda) and hopefully dodge the rainy season a little there.  More about that in the next post!