We left Tahoe in time to make it to one of the free Jelly Belly tours at the factory in Fairfield. Chloe was especially excited!
Never a dull moment with these kids!
Cameron taught Chloe (kind of) how to play scissors, paper, rock. It was pretty cute.
We all had to wear these hats while “on the floor.”
The tour was kind of fun, but we came close to the end of the day, so we didn’t see much in the way of millions of jelly bellies tumbling out of machinery. Still, the kids thought it was fun…and we did get to taste some decent-tasting cantaloupe-flavored beans! We also got to see a lot of Reagan crap. Apparently, he popularized the treat after he ordered a bunch for his inauguration–we learned that a new blueberry flavor was created as part of the red/white/blue mix. Jelly Belly had so many orders after that, they fell 6-months behind in production. I can’t recall the exact figure that they produce in any given day, but I do recall thinking that falling 6 months behind was mind-boggling given the volume they do produce!
Anyway, it really was too bad we missed a lot of production action given that we’re unlikely to return anytime soon!
