Chooooooooocolate!

It was sad to see the Austrians go yesterday. I told him I love chocolate so Christian gave me some of his leftover chocolate from the climb because European chocolate is so much better. I can get the same brands in the US, but it's still not the same. They use different formulas for export because the US has weird laws regulating what percentages of things have to be in the chocolate to be able to label it a specific way. Ritter Sport dark and milk chocolate with hazelnuts and a Toblerone. He said they each had 2 kilos of chocolate with them for when they climbed the mountain. That's about 4.5lbs!! Yikes! He apologized for the shape the Toblerone is in - the packaging is beat to hell from being up on the mountain, as you can sort of see in the picture.
He also gave me a whole bunch of the leftover energy bars from the climb, which I haven't tried yet. I looked up one of the words on the packaging - it said 'fitness riegel,' which translates to 'fitness latch plate.' haha, I'm assuming it means 'fitness bar.'

I'm going to have Frenchy get me his address (they have to stop by there before the airport because she let them store the mountain climbing gear in her garage) so I can send him some marshmallows. They had never seen marshmallows before, nevermind roasted marshmallows, so they assumed they're not available at the stores at home.

This is random, but there was just a Total Gym commercial on and I happened to look up at it - Chuck Norris is rocking the 70s/80s 'Stache these days! Wowsa, that thing looks ridiculous, especially because his hair is short. If you're gonna go with the giant 'stache, go all the way, Chuck! You gotta balance it with the voluminous hair!