Day 9 in Adelaide, AU Wednesday

So today we had an appointment for a tour of the Haighs Chocolate Factory with some new friends here in the ward. We met them on Sunday at church. Kathryn, Joe, and their son Shadrack. Joe works at RSP with Garrett and they are both from the states just here on a Contract like we are. Joe has been here a Lot longer than Garrett though. Garrett has been here almost two months and Joe got here sometime in June or July I think. They are really cool people and Kathryn and I decided to get together this week and take the kids to the chocolate factory for an outing. They took the bus here and we walked there together. After the first part of the tour the men (Garrett and Joe) met us and came on the rest of the tour with us.

The tour was fun but a bit of a disappointment. We thought it would last longer and we would see more, but it was a twenty minute tour designed to lure you in, give you just enough chocolate to make you want to buy more and then set you loose in their store to spend money. We must have really let them down though because neither of us bought anything.

The highlight of it for me was to watch the women hand making the chocolates. It gave me new ideas for different textures and ways to "dip" them to make them pretty.

After the tour we headed to the park to let the kids play and eat sandwiches we brought for lunch. Ezra was again annoyed at me (seems to be happening a lot lately)because he said he "HATES SANDWHICHES". Sorry my boy, but that was all we had left to eat for lunch. The grocery store is a long walk and hard haul to get food so we don't go often which is good. I like to eat everything we have in the fridge and not let things go to waste and now I have an easy out to tell G and the kids-sorry that is all there is.

Ezra found an iPod touch on the playground and Garrett took it to work with him and changed the owners Facebook status to say __________ needs to come pick up his iPod and then emailed the guy his email address to come and get it. The guy came and got it the next day. Hurray for Garrett in being proactive in getting it back to the kid.

Speaking of iPods the day before he found this kids iPod touch he dropped his own iPod touch and shattered the screen. He was going to buy a kit to fix the screen himself but now the headphone jack isn't working anymore :( it is more expensive to get it all fixed than to buy a new one unfortunately :( so sad. Good thing he is an honest person or he might have seen this as a good opportunity to pick up a new one for free.

We came home and had naps and then did school, made dinner and had our evening together. All in all a pretty good day.