Napa weekend completed – including a tour of Jelly Belly factory :-)

We are home again now, but not before nipping over to Fairfield. CA to visit the Jelly Belly Factory 🙂

 

With it being a weekend, the factory was not actually producing, but the tour was still interesting.  Apparently 70 million jelly belly beans are made every single day 🙂

Daddy sampled a booger flavoured bean and a Pencil Sharpening flavoured bean – apparently they were both “pretty good” – whatever that means…

Sadly, they would not allow photography in the factory, so we can’t share any pictures of what we saw..

Finally, we have added all photos of the weekend in the gallery so they are available to see below:

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Napa weekend

We drove up to Napa, CA last night to the hotel that will be home for the next two days – the Best Western, Premier IVy just North of Napa. It is a nice clean place with a small pool area outside – hopefully we will get to test out these facilities in the next 24 hours.

we went out in search of a family suitable restaurant last night and ended up feeling pretty disappointed – not really located any nice restaurants at all, let alone one that is good for the kids 🙁 We ended up dining in the crappy Mexican restaurant next door. Think we need to do some research before we head out tonight….

Mummy and Auntie Kerrie have gone out on a wine tour today so the boys went for breakfast at Denny’s just south of the city and then to a toy shop. On the way back towards to hotel (the boys wanted to go back to play with their new toys) we found that there was a car shown the centre of Napa with some incredible models from the 20’s, 30’s, 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and 80’s on show. They were all concourse models in terrific condition and some of tem were single owner cars !!! we have taken plenty of photo graphs of these items and will post them as soon as we get back home – there really were some crackers in here. we had to cut the tour short because Elly and Olly demanded to go home to play with their toys and this whinging just got too much. Not before we had seen an incredible condition VW Bus in red with red leather interior that was for sale – very tempted to call and make an offer…..

Maui Photos in the Gallery

Check out the photos we took while away….

Home » Maui Photos in the Gallery » Holidays » Maui - August 2011
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Back to normality then…

Well only for 36 hours – as we are heading off for a couple of nights to Napa – YAY !

The boys did really well on the flight back to San Jose (we didn’t manage to get upgraded seats – there were only three and Vicky even declined the offer for her and Kerrie to take two of them) but then did not want to go to bed when we got home (at circa midnight).

We have just 5 weeks to go before it is all over with the business and we can take a week vacation prior to heading back to the UK in early October – Vicky has all but sold all of the stuff that we don’t want / need to take back to the UK, so we need to consider shipping the clothes and other stuff (that is going to go back) sooner rather than later – hence the bikes etc could be back there shortly after us if possible so that we can get cycling soon after arriving back in the UK – Simon will have some time on his hands so he may as well get fit and lose some of the lard 🙂  We think that once Kerrie has head home (on Thursday next week) we will transform Oliver’s old room into a sort of transfer room where we can begin to plan out what is going back and how it is getting there 🙂 i.e. if we can get stuff on it’s way within the next 2 weeks, then it will be in the UK well in advance of Christmas rather than well after Christmas 🙂

 

Maui Day 7 – home time :-(

The big packup and journey home today 🙁 It has been a wonderful break and does feel to have been. Along one which is nice.

We awoke to find a dead mouse on the carpet in the room that Elliot was sleeping in 🙁 We have decided to leave it for the owners to see first hand…

We check out in 20 minutes and head to the shops for a couple of hours then the flight is at 3pm local time, getting us back to San Jose at around 11pm California time.

Hopefully we will be able to upgrade the seats again on the plane, although we are not holding our breath given there are 5 of us and only 16 seats in 1st…