Unfortunately I didn't vlog because my camera died. Sad times.
But fortunately I have a medium that doesn't require puny batteries and sounding like a muppet. BLOGGING!
So, this time Bekah took me Cadbury World, and Lauren and her friend Angela also joined us. It was very good to see them again; I have missed them quite a bit.
So I got up at early o'clock in the morning, high-tailed it to the train station and got on the 1016 to Birmingham. An hour later I met the most gorgeous trio of women since... I'm just gonna roll with my adjective and then we popped on a train to Bournville: the home of modern chocolate. Not long after that, we saw this:
We knew our goal was in sight.This wasn't actually part of Cadbury World, but I assume that it's some kind of office for Mr Cadbury. We strolled around this peculiar building and soon we came across this:
No! That's just Lauren and Angela. I meant this:
We were there! Inside it was a festive treat. It was a mighty chocolate themed Christmas:
That's pretty cool, it must be said. After we bought our tickets, Bekah met some black people:
We received our first batch of chocolatey goodness and then we were set to go on a magical ride of epicosity. Within the first few moments of our journey into chocolate-themed loveliness, we saw a man who was wearing a leopard:
I have a lot of respect for this guy. I couldn't wear a leopard. It's illegal now. This guy broke the system, he went against the rules and now he's the king of the jungle. And he has a spear.
In this part of the tour, we learned about the origins of chocolate, and how it used to be a drink and all that. Because I'd already learned all of this in one of my many trips to Germany, I just enjoyed the sights. What I was really excited about came a little while later, when our gracious hosts topped us up with more chocolate. Yes, we found some machinery. Cadbury didn't want me to take pictures, and their signs constantly reminded me as such. So, here's some pictures:
Boxes on their way to be distributed
Machines!
Aha! You broke it!
Chocolate processing!
We unfortunately didn't actually get to see the machines that produce the chocolate. I was disappointed. But nonetheless, some Cadbury adverts from yesteryear made me forget all about it. We then did something really creepy:
What was going on? Why are those cacti wearing sunglasses? What are they so happy about?
Why are there so many beans? Why would you give beans sentience? Does that make them tastier? How did they create that tiny village!?
Why was this cactus humping that bush?! In fact, why is this cactus growing in the Alps [citation needed]?
This was all very confusing and it frightened my immature mind.
I'm joking of course, it was hilarious and the four of us had a proper good laugh while watching that cactus hump the bush.
Anyway, soon I found a new pair of shoes for Lauren:
I thought this was pretty cool; we were able to watch chocolate being hand-crafted by Cadbury's own chocolatiers.
And then something amazing happened. You know that gorilla from the Cadbury advert? Yeah. So saw it:
This was very amazing. But it wasn't even over yet. Even after our magical tour we got to do more chocolate stuff. Firstly, there was the inevitable stop in the Cadbury shop to buy cheap chocolate and then went to something called Essence, where we learned about the formation of Cadbury Dairy Milk and it was all very amusing, and I got to poke fun at their awful attempts to amuse us. They really liked using hologram technology to make it look "life-like". Hahah! In any case, afterwards we got given liquid chocolate with an ingredient of our choice. I went with shortbread, because shortbread tastes nice. After this we went to the Bournville Experience and played a game where we got to build Bournville from scratch. To say the least, we built a pretty awesome town and it thrived and became awesome. Soon, we aspire to reshape the world.
After that we hopped back to New Street and then Lauren and I got on the train back to Leicester.
We all had a wonderful day, and I have to these three wonderful people for making me feel like every child should once in a while. For that half a day I felt like there was nothing wrong with the world, and that everything was wonderful and happy and brilliant. It was a great respite from Uni life and having to keep myself alive and running out of money and being busy with work and getting drunk. I didn't have to worry about anything, and it was almost as if I was being coerced into having a great time. Thanks Cadbury World, and thank you, Lauren, Angela and Bekah. You really made my day :)
So, what will the next Childhood Adventure be? Well, you'll have to stay tuned to find out.
You know what? I'm actually kind of glad that I didn't vlog. Because this post seems very... cliché don't you think? It's a lot like how I used to post. You know, without the worry of videos. Get a bit of nostalgia in ya.
Thanks again, you three, love you lots. Hope to see you soon in the holidays.
Pete out.
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