A Chocolate Affair

Last weekend, Williamsburg was hosting A Chocolate Affair to raise money for Inclusion, which is to inspire and include children from diverse backgrounds in the community. The girls and I figured it was a good cause and for only $15 you got to try tons and tons of chocolate, so why not?

The event was really fun and definitely a "grown-up" event that we all enjoyed, even though after 30 minutes we were having chocolate overload. There were representatives from all types of businesses and restaurants from all over Williamsburg that created things for us to try. Here are some pictures of what we tried.

Passion fruit dark chocolate - one of my favorites and definitely the prettiest!

Bacon dipped in chocolate - actually didn't try this but I did have a bacon brownie which was from the same table and it was great!

Of course it being Williamsburg, there was a display on how to make chocolate.

Pretty centerpieces.

Chocolate Fountain



Another one of the more interesting concoctions - fries with chocolate ketchup which was actually really good too.

Beach Trip

I know I haven't posted in a while, but I wanted to put some pictures from our girls' trip to Corolla a few weeks ago.

Amber, Andrea, and I rented (for FREE!) a colleague's beach house in Corolla on the OBX and went down for the weekend to enjoy some time away. We had some drama on the way down with TWO out of the three of us having someone hack into our credit cards but we got some food, had lots of wine, some music, and we were ready for the weekend. Checked out the house and got settled. Even took a little walk on the beach while the hot tub was heating up. We cooked a little dinner and enjoyed the sunset from the house and then my friend Sarah, who lives in Corolla too, came over and we had some hot tub time. Wayyyyyyy too much wine later, and after the hot tub shutting down a bunch of times on us, we still had a great time and enjoyed each of us having our own room to get some sleep.

Saturday, we just hung out at the house for the morning. Amber and I went on a walk on the beach and found some awesome stuff. There were a ton of skate egg cases, or mermaid's purses, all over the beach. But the coolest thing that we found were these purse crabs that looked just like molts but later we realized they were actually alive and just moving super slow. Lots of cool shells too.

After that we went over to the Outer Banks Education Center where Sarah works and saw a seal that had stranded that day, helped her with some of her feeding and water quality duties, and then took a hike along the boardwalk next to the center. We visited Sarah and Ben's house to see the Aerogarden and Maverick, and then went back to the center to watch the end of the sunset b/c it's just amazing from there. Had some more hot tub time that night.

Sunday was clean up time and just enjoying what time we had left on our mini-vacation. We stopped in Kill Devil Hills to see the movie He's Just Not That Into You which was really good. And then drove back. All in all a fun girl's weekend.