Chocolate Making

We have a couple of Chocolate Lovers in the group and we started discussing how easy it is to make nice homemade Chocolates.

It seemed like a good project for the week before Easter so we brought in a bunch of chocolate molds and melting chocolate, sucker sticks, and food coloring. Everyone was surprised at exactly how much fun it was and how easy the craft is.  Now that we know how to do these chocolates we discussed making some for next year as a fundraiser or perhaps as table favors for some SAM event.

We have an assortment of really cute Halloween and Winter holiday themed chocolate molds.

Look for more about our chocolate making in the Fall!

If you would like more information about making your own chocolate Bunny  a

good basic page with directions is on eHow.

(The picture is from the eHow site.)

Movie Day at SAM

Movie Day at the Stroke Recovery Association

We decided to have a Movie Day at SAM (Stroke Association of Manitoba) 

The decision was made to try having a movie event in the afternoon because so many of our members are free during the day. On the other hand many family members would not be able to attend at that time but we have to start somewhere. The movie Date Night was chosen because it seemed funny and like it might have an appeal to people who like an action show as well as people who enjoy romantic comedy.

We made some posters to put up around SAM, made popcorn, picked up some pop and rented the movie. Amongst other things, we learned that microwave popcorn is hard to make in an older microwave you are not used to. Next time I think would buy pre-popped popcorn and just relax at the event instead of worrying about how long to cook popcorn.

Our biggest challenge was that we had a large wall mount TV purchased recently and it was not yet installed on the wall. We went back and forth about getting a date to install it and we really appreciated Peter getting it installed on the wall for us.  The TV looks good and we think that we will be getting more use  out of it with time. We don't have cable into the space so we can't actually watch TV, but we have lots of DVDs and videos.   We are hoping to get cable some time in the future. A few of us can picture the fun of a Grey Cup and Super Bowl party and a few of us would like together to see the Oscars and other broadcasts as a group. There is a fair bit of interest is watching curling too.

We didn't have a huge group attending our first Movie Day but everyone who did attend seemed to have a really good time. We are thinking this would make a good seasonal event and plan on doing it again perhaps in the Fall.