Saturday was family field trip day around here: Bethany, Janis, and I all decided to take our kids to tour a nearby candy factory. The boys were terribly excited by the chocolate fountain coming from the ceiling, and by watching gummi worms come off the assembly line. The "tour" itself was pretty disappointing; it was just a peek through some windows at the people working in the factory below. But the candy store itself was like heaven for little boys and girls. Bethany, of course, immediately bought the boys 36-inch-long tubes to fill up with flavored sugar (basically, giant pixie sticks), which they did with glee. After that, we all split up to look around. I was clutching a boy in each hand (it was crowded in there!). For their part, the boys took everything in, and begged to take everything home. We ended up with some gummi snakes and rings, some old-fashioned candy (Charleston Chews, Slo-Pokes, Bit o' Honeys) for my dad, and some hard candy for my mom, which was fun for the boys because they got to fill up the bag themselves. Overall, I would say the trip was a great success from the boys' perspective, but maybe not so much from mine. It will be a fun thing to do again when they're older and I don't have to monitor their every move (also, we'll go on a weekday to avoid the crowds).
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