Mmm... chocolate

     We spent the second half of our day at the Ritter Sport factory (located just 15 minutes away from Dietrich Boenhoeffer)! Now, Ritter Sport is my favorite chocolate, so this has been something I've been looking forward to the whole trip. We were first directed upstairs to watch a short video about the production of the chocolate, which featured the owner of Ritter Sport in what I can only hope was an outfit purposely modeled after Willy Wonka. (And, my word, the hair.) We were then given a complimentary chocolate bar and reccomended to take a stroll through a small exhibit about the history of the company. After we politely ignored this reccomendation, we made a beeline for the main attraction of visit: the outlet store. Stacks on stacks and literally sack fulls of chocolate for bargain prices. If you are hoping that your child did not go absolutely insane and buy five pounds of candy, then I have good news for most of you, but bad news for a select few (including my parents... sorry. Although I doubt this is a surprise.) Anywho... after buying our cumlative 16 kilograms of chocolate some people headed off to the cafe where I spied a few people purchasing what seemed to be a „frozen chocolate.“ While we waited for the group to rally I made my way over to the bus where I made friends with our very friendly coach bus driver for the day. While I didn't understand a lot of what he said, our friendship became close enough for him to offer me use of the bus's refrigerator, so that my six pounds of chocolate wouldn't melt. (Mom, Dad, I swear it's not all for me.) After this we made the brief return trip to school where we were picked up. As I write this many people are deciding what they are doing for the night. Among other things, I've heard about some attending a movie showing at an open air theater (Shawn, Frau Fraser) and classical music concert (Rohan, Tim). Nevertheless, despite having done a lot already today, in typical German style the evening has not even begun!