Last night we left the restaurant that we had gone to with Grandpa and Grandma and we headed south, driving through the night to get to Liesl and Ian’s place. I didn’t really like being on an unfamiliar, windy, downhill stretch of road in the dark. But we made it safely and that is what really matters.
We arrived at their house in the early morning hours, unloaded all of the kids and everyone just crashed on the couches and the floor for a few hours. Liesl got up in the morning and made pancakes for everyone before heading out to go to an appointment that she had. We ate breakfast while she was gone and when she got back we discussed options for the day. Liesl had a meeting for work in the afternoon so she couldn’t be with us all day, but she suggested that we go to the Jelly Belly factory without her. The kids ears perked up when they heard “Jelly Belly factory” so that is what we did today.
We got to the Jelly Belly factory and went inside. Adam was thrilled to see all the candy!
We got in the line for the tour and waited. The group we ended up in was the last tour of the day. An employee took us upstairs to wait for a guide. While waiting, Lydia found this mosaic made of jelly bellies:
She was so thrilled to see Minnie Mouse made out of candy, her two favorite things in the world.
We weren’t allowed to take pictures during the tour, but we got to see how Jelly Bellies are made from start to finish, and how they are packaged up for shipping. I did get a couple of pictures of the kids in front of the factory though.
When we got back to Liesl and Ian’s place they had bought some pizza for dinner. We finished up the evening by eating pizza and having movie night. They have netflix, so we browsed through lists of movies trying to decide what to watch. Liesl chose Ghostbusters, but Ethan started pouting so we ended up picking Clue. I didn’t really want to watch Ghostbusters either. We have that movie at home, so it would have just seemed silly to go hundreds of miles away, have access to all kinds of movies we don’t have, just to end up watching something we have at home. Clue was pretty funny too. Some of the kids thought it might be scary, but they were pleasantly surprised and they were caught laughing multiple times. 🙂