Grate day. Today started off with me and Lyndon going catching a bus up to Gren Vill from their we had to take another bus to Belmont Estate where they make the chocolate. We had never taken the tour so we decided to do that. It was so much fun, watching the proses and tasting organic, local chocolate. They had the original coco drying houses. They have trays that slide in and out so they can dry in the sun and hide from the rain. The newer coco been drying house has inside drying racks. The coco beens go threw several steps before they become chocolate, harvesting, sorting, aging, drying, peeling, and ground into past. In the old days they used to do a coco dance with the beens in a pot so they could get the shells off. The estate also has a few animals. A parrot named Rainbow that can talk, some turtles and baby monkeys. The monkey where so sweet wanted to hold hands and play with my watch. We got to taste the goat cheese that is made their as well. When we where done we got a huge chef chocolate bar and headed to catch the bus agin, we were off to the Rivers Rum Factory. I was so exited to bring Lyndon their because he had never been, and rum is a big part of the culture down here. The factory is very old and is still working. The rum has such a high percent of alcohol that some of them can not even be taken on a plain because they are so flammable. Anyways they use the river to create power thats where they get the name rivers rum from. Also Rivers Rum is owned by three local people who employ ninety permeant people. It was a grate day we packed are own lunch and ate along the way. On the way home I got a phone call from another pvc and we were on tropical storm warning. So that was a little bit scary but I knew that was less than a hurricane and it might not even make it all the way to Grenada and sure enough it didn't. It did rain a lot. Fantastic day in the sun and not even a sun burn. I loved taking a local to a place that he had never been before. Its really a good cultural exchange.
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