Bloomington, Minnesota, USA - 10th April 2012
By: lazyfairy
Hi Everyone!
My name is Milk Chocolate, and I LOVE chocolate!
I am a chubby puppy that wants to travel the world. I love art and beautiful things.
There are no dogs at my house, so I am hoping I get to meet a dog very soon!
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Posted Apr 10, 2012, 11:10 pm
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Bloomington, Minnesota, USA - 11th April 2012
By: lazyfairy
Hi! I think I'm going to need a place to keep track of where I will travel.
My Travel Plans
Shilo in Germany
Noisy in Germany
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Posted Apr 11, 2012, 11:22 pm Last edited Apr 12, 2012, 6:17 am by lazyfairy
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Bloomington, Minnesota, USA - 16th April 2012
By: lazyfairy
Today I leave for Germany! I am so excited to start my journey!
Looks like I'll be checking out Germany with my first two hosts. I'm so excited!
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Posted Apr 16, 2012, 10:57 pm
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Bochum, Germany - 8th May 2012
By: Shilo
Hello Mum!
It took a while, but finally I arrived in Bochum.
When host mum, took my envelope into the living room, I was very curious who will be there, to welcome me.
Then the envelope was opened. I couldn’t wait to come out of it. But ups, it was opened on the wrong side, so my feet went out first.
When I sat up I could see two other TV’s. I was welcomed by Snowball and Freddi. They hugged me and asked me about my long trip.
After that I gave them the chocolate I brought with me. They were really happy about it.
Because I was so long into this small envelope, we decided to go outside and play a bit on the playground near the house.
Freddi and I tried to pull Snowball up to us, but it was too heavy for us.
We climbed everywhere around, every time another one of us was faster than the others.
After that we were a little bit tired and went onto the swing.
It made a lot of fun, but then we were a little bit too fast and so we……
You don’t have to worry, we were fine. But after that we went onto the seesaw.
It was a great day but now I am very tired, so we went to bed.
Love you Mum
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Posted May 10, 2012, 7:56 pm
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Gelsenkirchen, Germany - 19th May 2012
By: Shilo
Good morning Mum!
Today Snowball went with us to Gelsenkirchen, to visit the Zoom. The Zoom is a giant zoo with a lot of interesting animals.
When we entered the zoo, we had to choose which way to go first. We could choose between the Africa world, the Asian world and the Canadian world. We decided to visit the Asian world first.
This is the compound from the red panda. Can you see the two behind me? Unfortunately they didn’t want to show their heads, to take nicer photos.
Here we are playing in is a small hut, that was built on the water in front of the orangutan compound.
Can you see the fruit bat over there? It is sleeping but it looks a little bit scary to me, because it is so huge.
This is a wonderful old hand truck
We took a break before we went to the African world
This gorilla is sitting in front of the entrance to the African world.
I’ve found the zebras. They were sharing the compound with the antelopes
Wow the throat of these giraffe is so long.
Here you can see two African huts. Sadly we couldn’t go inside
With these boats you could drive on a small river that was floating around the baboon compound, the flamingos and the compound of the ostrich’s. Unfortunately the line was too long, so we didn’t take a boat.
Wow these hippos are really big
These lemurs were really cool. They were running around on a small island here. But I was a little bit too scared to touch them.
Before we went on to the Canadian world, we took another short break
Now we are entering Alaska
These moose had really long legs
Here you could see an old school bus that was standing around here.
We meet a really friendly bear here and took a photo with him
Wow reindeers, do you think they will bring me presents this Christmas?
Lorca and I were playing around in a small wood hut.
It was a wonderful day and we had a lot of fun.
See you soon
Love you
Yours Milk Chocolate
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Posted May 23, 2012, 10:09 pm
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Köln, Germany - 3rd June 2012
By: Shilo
Good morning Mum!
Oh mum, this was the best day I had so far on my trip. Shilo took us to Cologne to visit the Chocolate Museum. And inside the museum is a chocolate factory, so I could fulfill one of my life missions today.
First we went into the tropic house. There I found a cacao plant, but it has no fruits at the moment.
With this tool you can find out how heavy the bag with the cacao beans is
Oh look I found some chocolate in the show cases.
Then we went into the section with the chocolate factory.
This machine is called Cocoa mill. The pre-crushed cocoa kernels were milled and trough the frictional heat the cocoa butter melts and the cocoa mass leaves the mill in a liquid state.
This is a giant mixer. Chocolate essentially consists of cocoa paste, cocoa butter, sugar, milk or cream powder, and flavourings such as vanilla. All components were filled into the mixer and thoroughly blended. After that the paste was lead to the rolling mill.
The luke-warm chocolate paste is passed into the preheated moulds. The moulds then pass over a vibrating table so that the chocolate paste is evently distributed and any air bubbles can escape.
And this machine wraps the chocolate into paper. This chocolate was given as a gift for every visitor at the entrance.
This is a giant chocolate fountain. It looks so yummy and I hope I can taste a little bit of this chocolate.
Oh great, host dad was so nice and shared his chocolate with me
Here you can see some shapes for chocolate bunny’s and Easter eggs and some sheets for Santa clause
Look mum; here you could see how different chocolate sculptures were made out of different shapes.
The best thing in the factory beside the chocolate fountain is that you could design your own chocolate. You could choose which kind of chocolate you want and up to 4 ingredients which came into it. We choose white chocolate with cranberries, almond and crisps.
Here we could see how the self-designed chocolate was made.
After that we needed a little break
Mum did you know, that Years ago you couldn’t buy chocolate in supermarkets? You had to buy it in drugstores or get it out of cool looking machines
Wow a giant Lindt Rabbit and the in Germany very famous Milka cow
Here we could see how the packaging of some chocolate products changed through the years
I couldn’t imagine how long it will take to eat this huge chocolate ball
On our way back to the factory we saw some old commercials
Great we got our self-made chocolate. It looks really yummy.
It was a wonderful day. We had so much fun and we learned a lot about the history of chocolate and how it was made.
Love you Mum
Milk Chocolate
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Posted Jun 10, 2012, 8:51 pm
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