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Although we really enjoyed our trip to Mexico and the plantations (yes, there are still many more pictures to come!), we are glad to be home too.

We have a few new additions to our retailers list and I will have to update the website accordingly (Occoquan, VA and Ashburn, VA).

We have been mentioned in the February Issue of Northern Virginia Magazine (page 25) - also to view on this site under ‘in the news’ (to your left).

We will be out and about in a lot of places before and after Valentine’s Day to conduct free tastings. The exact locations and dates will be announced here on the blog and in our email newsletter.

If you haven’t heard - we are featuring our Jasmine Tea Hearts this Valentine’s Day again. They were a big hit last year and since they are for Valentine’s Day ONLY - they are going to be hard to get. Luckily you are able to order them online with us and we can ship them out to a later date.

Enough for today, we have to get up early tomorrow, as a power outage prevented us from working late tonight.

Have a good night!

While travelng through Mexico, we climbed up quite a few of the Mayan and Aztecs’ pyramids. The statue above shows a priest, serving the rain god. The view from this particular pyramid was breath-taking. The ground has just been discovered and dug out a few years ago (maybe 10 years ago?) …

The picture above is titled ‘El Chocolatl’ and apparently pictures a chocolate god? We found it in one of the smaller museums close to an archaeological park.

Safe and sound back from our trip to southern Mexico - we were about 100 feet from Guatemalan border at times

First of all I have to apologize for not keeping up this blog - it has been over a month since the last entry and well - it is finally time to catch up with everything.

We will bring you a detailed report with all of our discoveries of the beautiful country of Mexico - we learned a lot about the culture and history of the country and its people. We also learned a lot about the history of cacao and inspected a few plantations along the way to familiarize ourselves with the growing and processing of cocoa.

For tonight it is already too late to type all this up, but stay tuned for more information and more pictures from the trip - one of our computers had to go to the hospital (and it happened to be the Mac that I need for graphic processing) - on the weekend we should be able to bring you some imagery!

Finally we hope that the weather will be good on Saturday, so that we can entertain everyone with our chocolate making class together with TasteDC.

Good Night and have a nice weekend!