Today my friend, Kimberly and I decided to go to Aviano's Carnivale. Every year around this time most of the towns host their own mini Carnivale, similar to the well known one in Venice.
In the center of Aviano they had a few different stands with toys/balloons, food, pastries and different kinds of sweets. There was also a big blow up slide for kids to go down and a stage they played music from. Some people came in costumes; there were no specific type of costume people wore, we say everything! People on stilts, people in fat people costumes, princesses, clowns and so many more.
The main parade was out in the streets around Aviano. There were multiple floats that went by with people dressed in costumes on the float and some dancing down the streets near their float. Unfortunately, we missed the first float go by which was Bugs Bunny. But the next ones were still cool to see.
Some of the people would walk by throwing confetti. Sometimes they would come right up to you and throw it directly on you. Little to say we got covered!
After the floats all went by we wanted to try and find this place in Aviano called Desiree, that we've heard multiple people say has really good hot chocolate. It actually ended up being closer to the square than I had thought. Plus, while walking over there we got to actually see the beginning of the parade since it came back through some of the side streets in Aviano. We were happy we got to actually see the Bugs Bunny float. This float the people like attached us with confetti! We were covered! We felt bad then walking into Desiree's after since we were dropping confetti everywhere we walked, but I guess a lot of other people in there were too.
Attack of the bunny...
We sat down by a window to relax a little and get a pastry plus the hot chocolate. They have so many different flavors to choose from! There was a book of all the different kinds they could make, which made it even harder for me to decide. If you're a coffee/espresso lover you can add one of these it into your hot chocolate as well. Plus, you can add whipped cream on top too. I ended up going with the Sweet Almond Hot Chocolate with whipped cream. It was delicious!!
I can't wait to go back and try even more from the hot chocolate menu! :)
The pastry looks pretty good!!
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