A Georgia Girl in Germany

Now that we live near Ramstein, we don’t live near the Ritter-Sport chocolate factory. But, we recently learned about another chocolate factory nearby -- the Wawi chocolate factory. Since we’re a family of chocoholics, it only made sense for us to check it out, and what better time than when Nana and Papa visited since they always like to take German chocolates back to the states with them. Zachary and Benjamin posed in front of a variety of chocolates at the entrance.

The thing that sets Wawi apart from Ritter-Sport is that you can actually see the factory workers at work. They only had one of their two assembly lines going, and the kids enjoyed watching the chocolaty creations travel on the conveyer belt through the oven.

When we made our way to the gift shop, the kids were excited -- just like you’d expect kids to behave in a chocolate factory! Benjamin picked out several varieties hoping that I’d give the head-nod to put them in our basket. I didn’t say “yes” to everything, but think everyone was pleased with what eventually made it into the basket.

It didn’t take long to find the chocolate wölkchen that we saw being made in the factory below.

Nana carefully looked at many different varieties to make sure she picked out just the right chocolates to take back with her.

They even had several novelty chocolates. MacKenzie liked the music CD.

We filled up our basket before checking out. Fortunately many of the chocolates were on sale -- can’t beat that!

Nana and Papa walked away with quite a haul of chocolate too! Mmmmm.....

Labels: Benjamin, Germany, MacKenzie, Nana and Papa, Zachary