Cadbury Chocolate Carnival!

The girls, Winnie, Jo-Ann and Rina, at the bottom of Baldwin Street - World's Steepest Street!

The 'well beaten Jaffas at the finish line!

Just before the finish line!

Half way down the street!

The start with the 'orange wave' coming down Baldwin Street........

For the past 7 years or more, Cadbury in Dunedin has been holding an annual chocolate carnival every July school holidays and this year was no different, except my daughter decided she was going to take part in as many of the free activities as possible!  Of course, there's lots of chocolate freebies given out in most of the activities, too!  So chocolate overload for the young ones!

We started with going on a Sunday trip to the Royal Albatross Centre at the Otago peninsula, a very nice and scenic drive (unfortunately my girl erased all the photos by mistake the next day!) where we saw several species of sea gulls (alas! no albatross!), a few seals and some black swans and ducks.  Then it was onto a treasure hunt in the Otago Musuem which she did with a couple of friends and they enjoyed the hunt very much.  

On Monday we went to Baldwin street for the Jaffa race where 30,000 Jaffas were rolled down the world's steepest street.  Tickets for each numbered Jaffa were sold for $2 each and over $70K were raised in the 1 -2 minute event!  It was quite a site looking at a sea of orange Jaffas rolling down the street!  This race is only unique to Cadbury Dunedin which has been doing it for the past 7 years and last year they rolled 20,000 Jaffas but this year it is increased to 10K! Cadbury Dunedin produces about 80% of NZ Cadbury products.