A Room With A View: European Chocolate Festival

So, since I am currently awaiting the arrival of the entire Taylor (and now Murray) clan and Ellen is off galavanting in the east (you should all get REAL excited for that blog post, I can't wait to hear about all her adventures), I figured that now was as good a time as ever for the next post.

This week in Perugia (formally the home of Amanda Knox) is the European Chocolate Festival. Yes, you read that correctly. EUROPEAN CHOCOLATE FESTIVAL. Last Saturday, Ellen, Kassie, Kait, Hannah, David, Conner and Harry and I all hopped the train (along with -I'm pretty sure- all 6,000 of the other American students in Florence) and headed to the (COLD!) north of Italy to indulge ourselves a little in the deliciousness known as European chocolate. Needless to say I was unprepared. Chocolate and chocolate related things were everywhere in the city. Vendors selling cioccolato caldo (milk, dark and white hot chocolate), chocolate covered fruits, chocolate shots, chocolate kebabs (the most creative dish from the whole festival), chocolate crepes, baci (Perugian chocolate kisses), and of course all different kinds of just good old chocolate blocks. After exhausting ourselves eating chocolate and dancing to the Cioccolato song (a song for the festival that played constantly throughout the city) we had lunch at a very cool pizzeria owned by the most precious old Italian man. Energy renewed we got back out there and downed some more chocolate and bought plenty to take back to Florence with us (well maybe not plenty, sadly Ellen and I ate all of ours by the next day). Then it was back on the train and straight into a chocolate coma. Best festival ever.