Everyday is an Adventure: Chocolate Disappointment and Gingerbread Heaven

During our drive to Strasbourg, we spotted a Chocolate Museum sign and on our way out we headed there! Eight Euros later we entered, what we thought, would be a great museum filled with chocolate. We started with a movie that was narrated but, who else, but chocolate himself! Chocolate shared with us how he was discovered and how he is made for us all to devour with love...it was really just weird!

We entered the museum which was filled with extremely creepy moving figures and a sad lack of chocolate...

The highlight of the museum was the end when a woman explained how she makes the hollowed chocolate figures... one of the great mystery's of life has now been solved in my life!

Our gift when we left was not chocolate from the musuem but instead, yes you guessed it, Swiss chocolate..

We then made our way to the Gingerbread House museum...a little disappointed and unsure of whether is one would be worth it..and oh boy! It sure was!

When we drove up we saw a huge line of people and were handed delicious tastes of gingerbread and free tickets! Things were looking good!

The flyer we found in our hotel told us that:

The Gingerman takes you on a voyage of discovery through the world of Gingerbread covering more than 800 sqm.

Let yourself be guided on a fun interactive trail, which will delight your 5 senses. Visitors will find themselves in a variety of animated areas, where they will be able to find out more about the origins of Gingerbread, the secrets of how it is made, but but also immersed in the gormet world where the 5 senses are aroused.

How amazing does that sound? It was so great! We were led by the Gingerbread man through is house (as the flyer said we would be). We ate gingerbread from his walls (which we really weren't supposed to do and read the history of gingerbread. I don't recall most of this history but I do now know that there is a rich cross-country history in Europe.