Lawn Bowling and the Surprising Special Treat

One of the Rotarians we've met here participates in a sport called lawn bowling. It is exactly what it sounds like. You bowl this miniature bowling ball toward a "target white ball" amongst other players' balls on this flat green lawn. At least that's what I got out of it. I'm sure there is a lot more complication and technique that I have not accounted for. At least we were entertained by some old school Lauryn Hill and some really weird foreign hip hop music in the background while watching these Aussie men of all ages and sizes concentrate on hitting the white ball. When it was over, we were happy to learn that our Rotarian friend's team won and have advanced to the next round...yay!



Ok, now for the good part. Because we were such good sports in watching this lawn bowling event, we stumbled upon a chocolate place and decided to treat ourselves at 10:00 at night. We indulged in a dessert called Chocolate Filth. Sounds good already, right? The centerpiece was a dark, rich chocolate cake with a chocolate covered strawberry on top. Then there were several drinking glasses surrounding the plate: glasses with dark, milk, and white chocolate and glasses with mousse and cream. Dangerous. When the menu read that we would get "some" strawberries rather than just this one strawberry, we were both a little puzzled. So we did the American thing and demanded more strawberries even with all of this chocolate filth around us. Hey, this was an expensive dessert and the Australian dollar is still on parity with the US dollar. Anyway, so more chocolate covered strawberries came out and we smiled. Good thing we walk a lot in this town. Now isn't that sad I was able to tell you more about this chocolate dessert than the lawn bowling match? Go figure!
http://www.chocolatebean.com/