Ghiradelli Chocolate Festival

Every year the Ghiradelli Chocolate Co. in San Francisco holds a Chocolate Festival. Companies come from far and wide to showcase their chocolaty wares. People flock to it en masse, buy a ticket for $20 with 15 "samples" on it, and then proceed to wander around tasting different chocolateness.

I'd never been.

Until this past Saturday.

I went with my sister, her husband and my cute, cute, cute Nephew.

Well.

Going anywhere with a baby changes things immensely. We took the train into the city, which means we were always on the lookout for the elevator (to move the stroller up and down from Street Level to Train Level), which also meant that somehow we seemed to have skipped all of the ticket purchasing-ness that normally occurs when one isn't forced to ride the elevator with a child in a stroller. Both for BART and MUNI. It was a bit of an oversight on the part of the designers, don't you think? The elevators completely bypass all ticket collection stations. Insane.

After adventure that is riding BART with the afforementioned child came the adventure that is riding a bus with a child and a stroller!

Seriously. I don't know how mothers of small children ever make it anywhere. You are all amazing.

And we got on the wrong bus.

By the time we finally got to the festival it was around 3pm and began to fight the crowds and weave in and out of the booths and lines and I remembered why I'd never been before.


I said to my sister:

"I hate crowds. I hate lines...
I think I'm just going to go to the Ghiradelli ice cream shoppe and buy an ice cream."

She looked at me and just laughed. "Uh, why did you come here?"

So I stated the obvious:

"I like Chocolate."

Here's a cute picture of my cute nephew in the park by the festival. Just because.