Mmmm. Chocolate.

A few months ago, we had a little chocolate party with some of our old friends. I was just looking through pictures and realized I never shared any. So here we go.

I started this tradition a few years back, and this was my third annual chocolate and game night. We had some cancellations this year, so our numbers were lower than usual. As a result, our traditional "how well do you know your spouse" game was a little less exciting, but fun nonetheless.

As much as I love chocolate, I'm thinking this may have been our last big party. For one thing, my chocolate fountain just doesn't work very well. It never has. At first I thought it was me - that I'd assembled it incorrectly or something - but now I know it's just the machine. The Rival doesn't quite get the job done. The chocolate never makes a clean sheet as it flows, because the internal auger is not stably mounted in the base. The auger knocks against the plastic enclosure and makes a racket, too. Bummer.

For another thing, the clean-up is horrendous. That machine has a lot of parts, all of which are eventually coated in melted chocolate. It's a bit of a pain. But it smells divine.

Here was our table, decked out with every yummy thing you can dip in chocolate:


And here's me, taking a taste before everyone showed up.

Just kidding. Did I scare anyone just now?