Then I Was Like…

The Jelly Belly Factory Tour.

it’s a pretty cool tour and recommend it to everyone. it’s in fairfield and it is best to go on a weekday. The factory doesn’t run on weekends. It smells delicious in there and it was cool to see how they were made. I wasn’t allowed to take photos. I’ve never seen so many jelly beans! The tour brings you through the many stages in the making of these beans. The shop sells “Belly Flops”. These are beans that didn’t pass inspection. So I can get the biggest buttered popcorn flavors (my fave - what’s yours?) — it was like 3 beans fused together. The shop also had a sample bar. I tasted the new pomagranate flavor and the 7Up flavor. Pretty good. We ate at the cafe. They had jelly belly shaped burgers and pizza. I’ve wanted to go since I was a kid. It was fantastic. It was good, quick tour.

If you don’t like Jelly Bellys there is a budweiser factory down the street.

snowflake lashes.

snowflakes are beautiful.

Chillaxin’

My brother chilled out by the hot tub.

Hot tubbin’ in tahoe.

My brother and his daughter

View from the balcony. pretty.

This was the view from the balcony in the Tahoe cabin we rented. Spectacular!

yay! Snow!

When we drove in last night there was no snow to be seen. We woke up to this. And it’s still going strong. 4″ overnight. My niece couldn’t wait to go outside.

on my way to tahoe

got off to a late start. i’m typing this as we are heading up 80 towards sacramento. we’ll probably arrive around 1 or 2 am depending on the conditions and what not. hopefully it’ll be smooth sailing. taking two days off from work. man. i crunched a lot of work into yesterday and today. but it made the days go fast. i was working on some fun stuff. we’re putting on a online expo about security. there’ll be vendor booths, guest speakers, prizes, and of course — swag. all this, with out leaving your desk. it’s pretty cool. lots of work going into it. i’ll post more about it later when we have the site up and running.

 for now.. i have 4 days to enjoy. in the snow. can’t wait to bust the cap off my camera and shoot. it’ll give me a chance to work on my white balancing. shooting snow is hard. any tips out there?

i’ll post pics here and there from my trip… until next time…