Chicago in February Part 2

Jelly Belly Factory!  Kenosha Wisconsin, a seeming hop skip and jump from my folks house.  Shannon has been here several times, so we loaded up the clan and went for a free tour followed by literally being kids in a candy store with a billion free samples.  Nothing like 10 kids hopped up on jelly beans for a car ride home.  

Above is our group after the tour in the candy shop.  Below are the little kids lined up waiting to go inside.  

Grandma & Grandpa get a little goofy with the girls in the candy store.  Hmm, looks like I did not post any pics inside the warehouse.  There was a little tram that took us around explaining everything, but it was not the manufacturing facility, so the little tram basically took about 500 yards around, stopping every 20 yards for us to watch a video.  Since the Food Network is so overrun by those "best of" shows, it would have been cooler to see it live.  I think that's why they save the samples for last. 
Miss Emily poses with her peeps. 

Auntie Kassi and Elliot are displaying some of the "Dare" Flavors Jelly Belly makes:  Not sure if you can read them, but there are about 15 and they are flavors like:  Vomit, Pencil Shavings, Baby Wipe, Earwax, Booger, Moldy Cheese, Rotten Egg, Black Pepper and Shark Spray.  Ben had the Moldy Cheese, I had the Vomit followed by "toothpaste" to wash it down.  Deelightful. 
President's Day was on to Bounces R Us in Richmond, IL.  We LOVE this place...'cept it never seems to be open to the public for open gym during times when working people can get there, like evenings or weekends, but we got lucky on this holiday.  All these bouncy toys inside a nice warm warehouse.  And they let the parents go in with the kids.  And it wasn't over-run with older kids trying to pummel the toddlers.  There is a quality Spiderman obstacle course, Batman slide, monkey barrel, bouncy ball pit, Scooby van, princess slides, etc.  We did this for about an hour before the girls were pooped.  Samantha just had fun anywhere she could be walking and holding onto the hands above.  


Ben and I raced through the obstacle course and this is the last shoot.  We started at the same time and Ben had such a lead on me that he had time to dismount and come around to my side to cheer me on.  Good times.  

We left from here to drive into Chicago.  And this was the last known time the girls were "healthy".  On the drive in, they both started coughing in their car seats from being asleep.  Previous travels have caused us to travel with our patented "puke pak" and sand pail (is it a toy or is it a barf bucket?)  And at this point in the drive, I was leaning into the back seat waving the bucket from Sam to Elliot and wondering why we were only traveling with 1 bucket!  We made it, but had to cancel our playdate with 2 Little Tidbits in the city.