Feruz in Cardiff

Soooooo.. anyway, today we went to Swansea, coz we wanted to go for a tour at this Chocolate Factory named... The Chocolate Factory.. duhhh.. :P It's actually a company name Michton. We got out of the house around 10 a.m. I had to drive coz my sis wasn't feeling so good this morning. She drives at 80 mph on the M4, I drove only at 60-65 mph.. hahahahaha... nasib.. :P, BUT I got a reason lah why I drove not as fast... the winds here are CRAZY! kuat nak mampos O_O I had a hard time trying to keep the car steady! So anyway... the drive to Swansea took about an hour or so, and we straight away tried to find the factory, which was rather small. Because we reached there at around 11 and we had 4 hours to spare, we decided to find a beach, which my sister said was quite near, and we went for it.

It felt like AGES for me to get there! of course lah.. I was driving like a turtle okay... still not used to the roads here, PLUS the rural roads were dead small.. I mean REALLY small... I get freaked out everytime a car comes from the opposite side! So anyway... We got lost for a while and found a castle, which we couldn't get into, so we went back the other way, and went into this carpark, and LO and BEHOLD... it was actually the access to the damn beach! There was no friggin sign to say that it was!! So anyway, we paid £2, and parked our cars nearest to the beach. It.was.friggin. AWESOME! you don't get this type of beach back home! BUT it was super windy!! The sands+small rocks got thrown at us by the wind, can you believe it? We were there for about 1/2 hour taking piccies and just looking around, coz by the time we got there it was already around 12 something, thanks to my super duper slow driving.. ehehehehhe...

Then my sis took over the wheels and we were off to the choc factory! well, not before we had lunch at a McDonald's on the way :D all of us had Fillet-O-Fish coz thats all that we can eat here anyway apart from their salad *sigh*. We finished eating around 1.35 p.m and made our way to the factory, finally :P

So we got there, paid our tickets (£6 adult, £4.50 kids), they gave us these shower cap thinggies but it's made our of a tissue like thing, we waited at the cafe' for the others, at at around 2 p.m the tour started.

We first had to listen to Coco the clown (our tour guide), who informed us about how the chocs are made in the first place, where it came from etc. that took about 30-45 minutes, then they split us up into 2 groups, coz the factory is rather small, and we got Coco as our guide while the other group got the company's sales and marketing exec I think...

So anyway, Coco showed us the form of the chocolates which were brought to the factory, then how they melt it, how they put the chocs into moulds, how they cool it, and other techniques they use to make stuff like easter eggs and champagne bottle shaped chocs and cars and stuff, also how they wrap those chocs in foils. That took about.. 15-20 minutes or so, then they lead us to the shop. There were loads of things but there was nothing for us to bring back to remind us of the trip like a magnet or something. the only thing that had "the chocolate factory" on them were only caps and also some baby-t's... Which was rather dissapointing. Then there was also a candy shop, but we didn't bother going in there coz most of the things were like liquorice and stuff so...

Then we found out that the sales exec had been to Malaysia a couple of times, and one of the family that were with us in the tour lived in Singapore, and comes to JB quite often for shopping! I think Malaysia is food heaven, coz alllll they talk about was food... their fav food, what food they missed and so forth... Satay, laksa, chicken rice...and the guy from singapore (they were phillipines by the way, they live in s'pore now methinks) said he loved "kambing sup" (lamb mutton soup?).. huhuhuh.. and they surely missed living in s'pore... They're now in Swansea coz the dad was doing his clinical there I think...

So anyway, had Hot choc, even though I was full to the brim with free choc they handed out during the tour... took some more pics and we went home...

not quite..

We stopped at Brigend, the fav place for my sis to shop (hehehe) coz I desperately needed a new pair shoes... (Sorry mak and Abah, kasut mahal tu tak berapa practical nak pakai all the time!) The winds were blowing superly hard today... even the tent thinggy at Brigend was shaking like crazy... Got a pair of sport shoes for £18, Lonsdale...then checked out Clarks... and MIRACULOUSLY I found apair of boots thats MY SIZE *shocked*, PLUS, it was a further 40% off from the amount stated... so that pair was £35, and it's now £21 O_O leather some moreeee.... after much contemplating... I BOUGHT IT... reasons? 1. the pair I loved was 2 times that price... 2. You can't find a boot at that size back home.. 3. You can't find a boot at that size, AT THAT PRICE back home 4. I REALLY REALLY REALLY WANT BOOTS! It's far too cold here for plain shoes.. omaigod...

so there... and eventually we went home... pooped and tired... oh..we stopped over at Medina to buy some lamb shoulder meat to cook for dinner... and some lady fingers.... dinner was delish.. thanks to Kak Ju :D... ok .. tis all... for Piccies.. PLEASE CLICK HERE... Ok ok I KNOW I've been changing where i upload my pics and all... this time it'll be on fotopages, PLUS on Flickr when I have the time... okai?

BYEEE!!!