The Chocolate Festival

Yesterday we spent the afternoon with Brian, Amber and baby Stella at the Chocolate Festival in Glendale. Many people might be excited about a chocolate festival, but Andy and I really went to hang out with our friends because neither of us are that into chocolate. We either could take it or leave it; however, if it was held a different time of the month I might have been more excited to go. Since neither of us were that excited about the festival neither of us were disappointed that the event sucked. Yup, that’s right it wasn’t all the website said it would be. The website had pretty pictures and mentioned how it made the nation’s top 100 things to do. Eeek! If that made the list then I am scared at the other 99 things to do. Well, we first venture into territory neither of us are familiar with and that is downtown Glendale. We have never been there before so we had no idea how ghetto it is there. Then parking was atrocious because every man and woman from every trailer park in the state was there, so Andy was getting very frustrated and wanted to leave. Luckily our friends found a lot that they directed us too. Crabby pants and I get out of the car to meet our friends to find out that new mommy, Amber, had leaky boobs and we needed to find a Walgreen’s to get those pad “things” that new mommies wear. Unfortunately there wasn’t a drug store within walking distance and driving out of this mess was not an option so Amber had to go back to the days of junior high and stuff her bra with toilet paper at the nearest restaurant bathroom. I looked through my purse to see if I had anything that would help her and I offered up a tampon. Everyone laughed, but I thought I was being helpful. I thought she could unroll it or flatten it out and stick it in her bra. What are friends for anyway if they don’t come up with creative ideas in awkward situations? After the leaky boob was taken care of we proceed to this chocolate festival that Amber was so excited to eat chocolate. We made our way through the insanely packed crowd with the baby stroller. Young friends, when you get to be my age your other friends have babies and strollers start to accompany you at all outings. It was fun though because Stella was such a good baby and so sweet and cute. Ok, back to the festival. After we, and the stroller, made it through the masses of people we entered the beer garden and made a loop there. After we canvassed the area we found out the chocolate festival is really a generic carnival with carnival food drizzled on top of everything. Well, there were a few stops that had decent looking chocolate, but for the most part it was carnival food dipped, dunked or drizzled with chocolate. We stuck around for a couple hours before we decided to hit up the Mexican restaurant that serviced the leaky book earlier in the day. We get there and the host is outside taking down names. She said it would be about a 15 minute wait and she was right because about 15 minutes later our names were called. We all walk into the restaurant saying “WTF” because it was 75% empty. What were we waiting outside for when majority of the place was empty? We get seated and all commented on the 1975’s décor. The booths were bright orange with the giant buttons in them. Everything looked like a scene right from 1975. After some food and good laughs we all headed back to our cars to find them safe and sound…surprising! We are glad we checked out the chocolate festival because now we know we wouldn’t go back next year and we got to hang out with our friends and have some good laughs.