Today was another activity packed day. I work early and did some laundry, took a tour of the Cadbury chocolate factory, went to a farmers market, and then to a rugby game. The Cadubry factory was really neat. You enter the building and there's a mountain made of gold wrapped chocolate in the front entrance, with little ompaloomapa-ish men poking their head out. While we waited for our tour to begin, there was a little museum about the history of chocolate and cadbury that you could peruse through. They had a basket full of raw cocoa beans for you to try. They were extremely bitter and tough, but neat to try. We were then ushered into a room and given a bag of chocolate to eat while they played a movie about cadbury chocolate. When they said bag of chocolate, I thought they meant two pieces of funsized candy or something. Nope. They meant a bag of chocolate. They gave us like 5 full sized candy bars and a Cadbury Carmel egg. I haven't even eaten all of it yet. The movie talked about how they used local ingredients, milk from the Otago cows, sugar from cane plantations in Australia. Our tour guide took us up this huge silo that they used to keep ingredients in. It was all dark, and there's a spiral stair case following the side of the silo. The railings of the staircase where covered in old chocolate. Once we got to the top, our guide pushed a button and made a waterfall of chocolate crash from the ceiling in front of us. There was a splash zone! As in, stay out of this area, because you will get sprayed with liquid chocolate. He said it was just for the benefit of tourists, but it was still extremely awesome. Then he took us to a little room, and told us how Jaffas, a popular New Zealand candy is made, and then he gave us all little cup of liquid chocolate, right from the machine. We stopped at the gift shop on the way out and I got a bottle of chocolate soda. It was disgusting. Like gross enough that I kind of want to try it again, just to confirm that it was that gross. I haven't convinced anyone else to try a sip yet.
The farmers market was very nice. Lots of farmers selling produce or cheese. There weren't many out of the ordinary products, no vegetables that I didn't recognize. They also had a nice collection of lunch stands. Ribs, and hot dogs, and post stickers, and crepes, and one lady was selling warm lemonade. I tried a sample of mead, which was interesting. Our TA bought 7kg of apples.
The rugby game was between Dunedins team and a team from South Africa. We went early and pregamed at a student bar. It's so weird that I'm of legal drinking age here. Everyone bought a pitcher of beer for themselves, and it like totally allowed. It's odd. I just kinda sat there, not drinking, feeling like a dorky kid sister. "You wanna split a pitcher with me, Lily?" "Naw thanks, man". We painted our faces in Blue and Yellow for the team colors. The game was neat, even though I didn't know what was going on. I got a flag, and I waved it when everyone else did. At half time they brought out some sheperd dogs and raced them across the field. Though they didn't really race. Most of the dogs were to scared to move, and some of them ran for the door. The game lasted for 80 minutes, and New Zealand won. We walked back, and I got some roti bread and packed and went to bed. Tomorrow we leave for Te Anu. Have a good day everyone.
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