A Long Walk

We walked downtown and back this morning to visit a couple of festivals, covering about 5 miles.

First stop was the Farmers Market for their annual Apple Festival. Last year they didn’t have many apples and blamed it on the poor harvest (which in turn was blamed on the dry weather.) This year there was even fewer apples. As a matter of fact I didn’t see any of the fruit at all, just some apple butter and maybe an apple pie. We looked around and were tempted by something, but had no way to carry it home.

After that we walked down the street about a half dozen blocks to the Chocolate Festival. We were a bit early for the official start, but one of the reasons we were there, the used book sale, was already underway. The real attraction is of course the chocolate, tables chock full of home baked goodies with chocolate as an ingredient, and a little cost. We bought a big ol’ piece of cake, a giant brownie, two chocolate chip cookies a piece and some chocolate covered pretzels for two bucks.