On Tuesday we finally set out to see a few museums. Since we have a 1 year old in tow, we figured fine art museums might not be the best bet. Instead, we opted for shorter, more entertaining museums. We started with the Chocolate Museum, where D had her first taste of chocolate (do not wear white while giving 1 year old chocolate chips). She, of course, loved it. The museum was interesting. They started by letting you taste the flowing chocolate from the fountain before watching a demonstration on making chocolate candies and sculptures. We found it quite interesting that many of the sculptures (like Snow White's dwarfs in the pictures) were made by pouring chocolate into Halloween masks. After the demonstration, we walked through the actual museum which traced the role of cocoa in
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