My town is a tourist town, impossible in summer and half of it closed in the winter (try to get a nice meal out in January - March, grrrr). Not content with the ordinary hordes of tourists, one or another organization is always trying to add another 'festival' to the calendar (recent additions = running festival, daffodil festival, wine festival). This year we got 1st Annual Chocolate Festival, today, the first Saturday in March. Cloudy and raw, as to be expected in early March; not pleasant for the outdoor chocolate crawl venue staff, nor the patrons. At least it wasn't blowing a gale. So I figured I might actually have a chance at scoring some delicious choccy treats without having to battle clots of people spilling out into the main street (only street) through town. And I did! Raspberry chocolate mousse, peanut butter and chocolate bread pudding, chocolate cheesecake lollipop, chocolate raspberry truffles, chocolate and cinnamon truffles, white chocolate lollipop, chocolate almond bark, and I quit there before I passed out from a sugar crash. Ten bucks. Deal! And, to pass the time between buying tix and the venues opening, I did a little shopping since most shops run deep discount sales in late winter. Scored a designer t-shirt for 60% off, some crab salsa, and a cow creamer for Mate, to console him after wrestling with Inland Revenue (Internal Revenue Service - Trump's tax 'cut' resulted in our OWING more than twice what we received as a refund last year

). AND the only waterfront restaurant in town that's open now was handing out 10% off coupons, so I may go in for a nice brunch tomorrow.
