So let's begin with the moment you walk in. Tables are lined up for check in. You did have the option to purchase tickets online so of course that would have been faster. We did not do this but still the line moved quickly, although the lady did have trouble using the card machine. There were people helping her and they even opened another line as she figured it out. It didn't take long for her to learn and the line moved very quickly then. When I walked into the main area, I was not sure where to start. They were selling tickets to win a jersey from the teams playing at Super Bowl this year. After passing that table there was a hot chocolate table. You could get a sample and of course I did. I tried the chocolate lovers. It was so good, I bought a cup. I knew at this point I was in trouble. At the first chocolate booth and I was buying chocolate. They even had the powder mix for sale. I think it would have been a good idea but I needed to see what else they had.
I am not going to go through each booth but I am going to touch on a few that stood out. The first one that comes to mind and one of my favorites was the chocolate martini booth. They had chocolates that went with wine and even chocolate coffee beans. We all know this would be my favorite booth. They had all them so you could sample. It was my favorite, did I already say that? Another booth had chocolate covered strawberries and truffles and other candies. They had jumbo chocolate covered strawberries with gold flakes. These were almost too pretty to eat. Another booth had chocolate covered apples. When I say apples, don't take that lightly. They had on the chocolate any and everything that would make a apple better. Nuts, M&Ms, toffee, caramel, pretzels. Way too many to name. Several booths sold cakes and pies and cupcakes. Some sold just candy. Reese cups, moose tracks and mints. These was even a booth with smores with homemade marshmallows. Also do not forget candy bars. If you got a golden ticket in your bar you won a prize. The list of sweets goes on and on. The best part was there was samples and you could pick and choose what you wanted to take home.
I have to talk about the extras they did to make the festival fun. They all have them and some are better then others. The festival had drawings throughout the day. They announced it as you walked around so you never missed if you won. One of my favorites was the pudding eating contest. It was who could clean their plate the fastest without hands. All you had to do was enter. They had Marines down to little kids. The announcer was awesome and really kept it entertaining. The other thing they had was a chance to go to a Chocolate spa. You read right.. chocolate spa It did cost extra for that. However, how fun would that be. They also had contest going on for all age groups. They also had the cakes entered available to purchase by the slice. I was excited to see all the entries. The cakes were beautiful and it was hard to choice a favorite but after thought and some talking. I would have chose the rice krispie cake that actually had a small rice krispie box pretending to spill on top of the cake. How creative.
Now the best part of all of this is, This festival was all to raise money for several non profits. They all work together as one to create this event to benefit others. Here are the places they donate the money to:
- Second Blessings Community Outreach
- Bridge Student Ministries
- Coastal Community Action
- Bread & Barley
We really enjoyed the festival and continued our day traveling more but this was an amazing stop.
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