West Coast Chocolate Festival

Played badminton on Saturday and Tuesday last week. Was recovering from the overdose of free maple-leafed shaped sample chocolates from the West Coast Chocolate Festival chocolate factory tour at Chocolate Works and wasn't able to play last night. Then today I had arthritic angst and fatigue so couldn't play. I checked and sure enough the aches and pain index is up which coincides with my arthritis pains.

I enjoyed volunteering at one of the Chocolate Festival events - Chicks & Chocolate on Friday night at the Executive Hotel in Coquitlam. There were lots of vendors giving away free samples and interesting booths and presentations. I ended up volunteering to be a baresuit model. I found out that a baresuit is a bathrobe with legs. Coincidentally I modelled a purple one which is one of their new colours. There were Cancan dancers and then myself, S another Chocolate Festival volunteer and 2 of the people from the pole dancing table modelled the baresuit on the stage. Myself and S wandered around the event modelling the baresuits and also stood beside the the baresuit vendor table where the founders Gordon Lloyd and Suzanne Armstrong were. Gordon wouldn't go up with me to try the pole dancing (he was one of the very few males there) but Suzanne did! It was quite warm swinging around on a pole in a baresuit.

I missed seeing the rest of the dance demos: belly dancing, salsa, line dancing; and the beer and chocolate pairing and the desert demo and sampling as I was helping sell chocolates from Chocolate Works as well as dipping fruit, marshmallows and cookies in the yummy chocolate fountain for the guests. Unfortunately it was quite tempting to help myself to dipping fruit and eating the other chocolate samples we had on the table. There were also other yummy appetitzers: the chicken was great. Dismantling the chocolate fountain was interesting. After it was turned off the chocolate was allowed to drip into the bottom then we had to scrape the excess chocolate with gloves and paper towels.