Aloha Yems

So apparently Santa Claus is not a rolly polly white dude in the Netherlands! And his name is Sinter Klaus. I loved the whimsical version better than the US one that we always see. They also seem to love their marzipan (which I love too) and it's sold everywhere! It's kind of fun explaining stuff to Cam and him wondering how I even know what that stuff is. Like marzipan? How many people actually know what that is? lol. 

Yummy McDonalds Happy Meal

The one thing I really fell in love with about London was the waffles. Fresh made, sugary, crispy goodness. Wonder Waffles was conveniently located next to the London Eye and the London Aquarium.

I don't know why I come here. The lines are always out the door, the order system is ridiculous, and you can never really stop and look at what you want because they're yelling next every few seconds.  La Baguette is a horrible place to go to. This past weekend was my official official last time. Those pastries above look delicious right? Looks appetizing, colorful and it should make your mouth water. But omg, it's the worst assortment of pastries that I've ever had. The petite choux, the macaroon and the fruit tart. All equally disgusting. The macaroon was CRISPY and HARD. When have you ever had a crispy, crunchy macroon. We ended up throwing it away. The choux pastry was hard as well. And geeze, the fruit tart. That thing can break your teeth. The fruit was probably the only edible thing on there. 

Talk about HUGE WASTE OF TIME! VinoModa has definitely figured out how to get the masses to come to their events with promises of UNLIMITED Tastings. UNLIMITED! And then you get there and it's unlimited until 7pm-ish when their event is suppose to end at 9pm. I feel so bad for anyone that paid the money to go to this event. Families/people came for the unlimited cupcake and wine tastings, energy cocktail shots but they failed to mention it was unlimited $3.00 cupcake tastings and $3.00 Smart Energy cocktails. $3.00 for a cupcake on TOP of the $55.00 cover? And this so called Smart Energy Cocktail ? Disgusting! Who the hell are they kidding? It was so gross I didn't even finish it. I didn't see too many people at this event actually drinking this stuff. And the people at this event? Drunk and totally UNDERAGE. I could count the amount of kids running around here completely trashed, cutting in line and just being plain sloppy. But what can you expect. When we first walked in, they checked my I.D to make sure our names matched the ticket and that's about it. And then you go to a separate line to get your glasses (that were wiped down with a dirty cloth).. Yes, gross. So after all this, what did I learn? I learned that I could come to any VinoModa event (and there's no way in f'INg Hell that I'd go to another one) and not pay. Just go to the event, grab a glass and get into the non-existent "tasting" lines and help yourself to glass after glass of wine. And!! Don't forget to bring ear plugs because the music so deafening you'll get more irritated and want to leave. I think it was they're "get these people out of here" tactics. In the end we had a few tastings, bought wine from Cupcake Vineyards (which we've tried previously so we knew it was pretty good and they actually ran out so we had to get our bottles shipped..- they ran out at 6:30ish) we each had ONE free cupcake each from this one random cupcake place and SERIOUSLY. The girl had to warn us that they weren't the best cupcakes and told us which ones to grab. I mean, wtf??? Can you imagine telling someone, these cupcakes are kinda funky but eat these two because they're the most normal of the group. Luckily for them, the frosting was pretty decent. I threw most of the cupcake away because it had this weird after taste. It was some pink champagne cupcake with cream cheese frosting and Cam had a moscato flavored cupcake with a cream cheese frosting as well. Not the greatest and obviously not impressive enough for me to wanna go find out who they were. That's pretty bad if you ask me. And I'm a dessert hunter. If I'm curious enough, I'd take all the effort to go get a cupcake. But in the end, all I really wanted was a Kingdom Cake cupcake but they were all sold out. Sucks for me.

Picked up a bottle of Cupcake Vineyards Sauvignon Blanc from World Market last night. Great marketing idea and surprisingly tasty.