Sacramento – Day 2

Thursday July 2 – Well this morning I lied to you. I know it was not the first time. Anyway we were supposed to go to the State capitol Building and then to the Jelly Belly factory. Well we got the priorities correct and went straight to the Jelly Belly factory. The capitol will be tomorrow. Once we got to the Candy factory we discovered that half the population of California had the same idea. The line for the tour was wrapped around the lobby 6 or 8 times and out the door. The people keeping the line orderly said that it was it was somewhere between a 45 minute to and hour and a half wait. Now that really narrowed it down. The good thing was that they handled out samples while we waited and waited- for about an hour for our turn to take the tour. The one big drawback was that in the line with us were 385,916 screaming kids on a sugar high. How do I know that there were exactly 385,916 kids? Well I counted each one of the little darlings as they stepped on my foot. Can’t even imagine what a weekend day would be like. The tour itself was very interesting. Did you know that from start to finish a single jelly bean can take up to 20 days to make? This factory employs about 700 people and makes up to 100,000 pounds of beans a day. I still have a hard time believing that “Vomit” is not one of the biggest selling flavors. In the store at the end of the tour we bought somewhere around 30,000 pounds to bring home. Well by the time we get home there may be 3 pounds left.
After the Jelly Belly experience we headed toward Napa to see the famous vineyards. Lots and lots of grapes and just as many Wineries. With not many signs advertising wine tasting and tons of traffic making it difficult to turn into or get back out of places, we ended up just driving around looking at everything and not stopping to taste and/or buy anything. The shops we saw looked liked the kind where the help would have snickered behind their well manicured fingers if we had walked in anyway. Got back home about 7:30 and had dinner. Relaxed a bit and worked on this blog before heading to bed.