28 June: Chocolate & Honey

It started to rain today. The 4 of us lazed around in the house for a bit, uncertain where to go or what to do in this mood-dampening weather.. We ended up visiting the Silky Oats Chocolate Factory / Museum, one of the so called "Tourist Attractions" in Hastings.

Before that, the guys decided to make a pit stop to check out this place called U Drive, where you can play Paintball and drive around a circuit in your own car and do all the drifting you want. The chocolate factory / museum was quite pathetic. The so called "factory" was just a small bakery kinda set up, and their museum was a self guided tour of the 3000 years of history of chocolate. For a fee of $8 per person. Which was why we ended up eating (again) at their cafe. We were surprised to see a small crowd at the cafe, and began to realize that's where all the cars were coming for. At first when we reached the factory, we saw a lot of cars parked outside, and had thought the factory / museum must be quite a popular place. Turns out it's the cafe that's popular. Haha..

Between the 4 of us, we ordered a slice of deliciously sinful chocolate cake, a slice of cheesecake, one banana muffin, one cheese scone, one hot and one cold cuppa chocolate and one cappuccino. Before we left, the cafe waitress gave everyone complimentary chocolate truffles. It was overall quite a nice treat. = )

We headed to the honey factory next, and learnt about the bees and honey. K and I watched a video on bees. There were even real honey combs with bees buzzing about for us to observe, and microscopes with slides of bee specimens etc for us to see.. I felt like i was on a school excursion. = ) I never knew that bees had 5 eyes: 2 big compound eyes at the sides, and 3 small eyes on top of their heads. And i now know how to differentiate between a worker bee, a queen bee and a drone bee (the male who mates with the queen). = )

We headed home after the honey factory visit, after running out of places to visit, and just too bumped out over the never ending rain.

Ah Ming made dinner for us, and it was both nutritious and delicious. We had stir fried brocolli and carrots with my fave golden mushrooms. The sauce was so nice it tasted like those coffee shop stir fry dishes.. Then there was steamed fish with chye poh (malaysian style), and lamb stew (which i skipped). I loved the steamed fish. My dinner was so delicious i finished up my whole plate of steamed rice. I just felt so homely you know, 4 of us sitting down and eating dinner like that.. It was very nice = )

After dinner, we all helped to wash up, and then started a game of mahjong. Adreana seems to be hooked on mahjong already now.. haha.. but i am not complaining.. I was the sole winner for today's game = )

The rain continued throughout the night, and according to the weather forecast, will continue into the next day. So most probably there will be no work tomorrow. I think i am the only one who will be truly happy, cause at least i won't be so bored at home! = )

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