Thursday, January 31, 2013

NaturXocolat!!!













Posted by PicasaThe other day we went to the Naturhistorisches Museum (the Natural History Museum) .  It was a big museum that housed the famous Venus of Willendorf, a little statue of a pregnant woman.  She is at least 25,000 years old!  She was found in Austria! It was really awesome to get to see her and I posted a picture of her.  The museum was filled with rocks in one section. There were four rooms, each room had at least 6 cases and each case had at least 500 astounding rocks in it.  We went through the first few rooms and we were sure there couldn't possibly be any more but when we stepped through the doorway there was the biggest room yet, filled with more rocks!  Apparently that museum has one of the biggest rock collections in the world!  When we went to the next room we were almost positive there were no more rocks.  Well, there were no rocks like we had seen in the other rooms but there was a room full of meteorites which are technically still rocks, but they're from space.  The Natural History museum has the biggest meteorite collection in the world.  There were also some stuffed animals and a dinosaur exhibit.
We went to an awesome chocolate store called Xocolat.  It was filled with all different kinds of chocolates from all over the world.  We decided to each get a bag of eight truffles.  Gabe bought a chocolate bar with his own money too.  The truffles were delicious!  My favorite was an Equadorian truffle.  It was a truffle with chocolate powder on the outside and creamy dark chocolate filling on the inside.  When you bit into it, it would crack and all the dark chocolate filling would flow into your mouth!  I loved it there and I plan to go back!

4 comments:

  1. As I keep saying "I want chocolate"
    Sounds so interesting there.
    I would like to have a meteorite but I guess if you looked all around our country you would find one. I watch a tv show and that is all they do,chase around looking for them. Love you

    ReplyDelete
  2. This comment has been removed by the author.

    ReplyDelete