Chocolate festival

One of the best things about Blacksburg, during the summer, they have lots of festivals and most weekends close of College avenue for them. This weekend was the Chocolate festival! Unfortunately it was a British summer day, i.e. it rained most of the day. Luckily while I was out, for half the time it was reasonably dry.

One of the tasting tables

Yum!

 It was $1 per tasting ticket. I has hoping to get one of the chocolate strawberries but they weren't included in the tasting tickets. But I got a triple chocolate a butterscotch one which just as good. (The diet sort of went out the window a little!)
There were also some stalls with gifts and such, and I got given a balloon because someone loved my t-shirt (I was wearing my "self-rescuing princess" one!) which I gave away. There were also some interesting offerings!

Crafts

 The back says it was found on the I-81! Not sure if it's a joke.

Interesting!

I also went to the Farmers market and couldn't resist a bottle of the Fresh ginger and mint lemonade (which was so good) and the black olive tapenade! Very tasty!

Lovely food!

At lot of the shops down Main Street were also part of the festival and selling bits of chocolates and baked goods. It was lots of fun, almost like a chocolate treasure hunt.
On the way to the Gourmet Pantry (they were supposed to have truffles!) I bumped into Janice, David and his sons and grandson which was nice. So we all went down the the Pantry. Only to find they didn't have any truffles at all! :-( But they did have some chocolate cheesecake fudge so all forgiven. And they were doing their free wine tasting!

Matt pouring our wine

 I resisted buying any wine (though the super Tuscan was very tasty!). On the way back up town I stopped in at the new restaurant which is opening tomorrow but they were showing people around and giving out menus. It looks so nice and I am super excited about it.
I managed to spend my last tasting tickets in College Avenue on a fig and Cognac truffle, a lemon and ginger dark chocolate, and a soft dark chocolate carmel, which I managed to save for this evening. Unfortunately at this point the rain really started! But it didn't stop some people from dancing in the rain. :-)

Dancing in the rain

And walking back to the bus stop, a lot of stalls had sold out signs, so the rain didn't cause too much trouble. :-)

I plan to spend Saturday evening eating with my treats and films. Good night! :-)