Choco-holics

To set the scene - we were in Dundlod. A small village. The largest shop was a small 3 x 6 meter garage.  We ate well, but mainly the same types of vegetables in a variety of curry flavors... you can guess that we were craving a thing or too.

So about a week into our time in Dundlod (early to mid-Jan), Kristen was craving chocolate. We found a lovely little shop that sold chocolate smarties called "Gems" by the single-packs. Each packed had 3 smarties in it (candy covered chocolate drops.. like m&ms or smarties)

1 rupee per pack. That works out to be 6 packs for 1 South African Rand. 50 packs for $1.

Kristen bought 10 packs for us to share, and loved them. On her last pack, her face dropped.

So we ran off, and offered the shop keeper 110 rupees for the rest of the container of sweets! Given that there were around 200 left in the jar... but still! That's $2.20 for over 600 smarties, and of course, a smile :)

To say she smiled doesn't quite capture it. Kristen walked around the village all day with the container under her arm! I may have helped her eat them :)

Not only were we the happiest people in the village, but Kristen made sure that everyone got a sweet that day -- kids, our buddies in the stables, pretty much everyone!