It was my turn for Treat Day today, which is our staff tradition where you sign up to provide treats in the teacher's room on Fridays in rotation with all the other teachers. You end up providing treats about once every two months or so and snacking on other teachers' snacks every other Friday.

Guess what I took in today for Treat Day? My German friends? Anyone? Any ideas?

Heh, yeah.

More specifically, I took in a bunch of the mini German Schokolade bars that came from the big box from Sabine that you can see in the photo there. Not all of them, mind you, because I think John would have disowned me for that. He's become very fond of his supply of German chocolate :).



For those who weren't at FilkContinental, it all started as I was getting on the plane to Germany. I bought a Hershey bar, thinking it might be nice to have a little bit of chocolate in my luggage, as it would be easy on the throat. I had no idea...

When Ju greeted us into her home in Frankfurt, we found huge bags of German chocolates on our pillows. Well, yum, a very nice start to our visit. When UT and Ju went into downtown Frankfurt the next day, we stocked up on Milka chocolate bars to take home as gifts. We'd heard German chocolate was very good...

Then we reached FilkContinental. You see, Urban Tapestry has a couple of songs that reference chocolate (all written by Debbie, I should add). We have a few songs that reference that we kind of like chocolate. Maybe a bit. Other cons have gifted us with chocolate. That was really, really nice. The British filkers even threw chocolate at us during our concert on their turf. That was fun :).

But the German filkers decided to up the ante. Big time. We didn't know what hit us!

Our fabulous, wonderful guest liason, Franklin, greeted us each day in our hostel room with three bars of German chocolate, on behalf of the FilkContinental concom. Milka bars, Ritter bars, some liquor Ritter bars we'd never seen before! (OK, those bars never made it back to Canada...) Filkers would stop us in the hallway and offer us Kinder bars. Sabine bowled me over with the above-mentioned box of German chocolate on my birthday. Lissa passed on some yummy British chocolate during the con, too. And Deb and Jodi both managed to win chocolate during the auction, too :D.

To take the cake, the concom presented us with the World's Biggest Birthday Toblerone Bars during closing ceremonies. Part of our Schokolade haul can be seen in the photo above. It was a logistical triumph that we managed to pack it all to bring it home :).

Many people have benefitted from the generousity of our German and British friends. John has happily been munching through my stash and saving his favorite types for himself. Some chocolate went home to our families for Thanksgiving weekend. The teachers munched through the Treat Day chocolate by lunch.

Looking in my fridge I can see I still have one large Milka bar, half of Sabine's box of chocolate, The Birthday Toblerone Bar That Ate The World and a gigantic chocolate-filled Euro from Ju, that I like so much that I will probably never eat it and it will still be sitting in my fridge a year from now to remind me of how much I loved Germany.

Mind you, I don't expect to be nearly as sentimental about the rest of the chocolate :).