It's kind of like a really bad Netflix series. You started it, you don't really like it, but you're invested in it, so you can't fully give up on it.
And people like it I guess. Fine, FINE, here I am again.
Circumstances are getting weird around here too with moving and government shutdowns and MOVING, (no, we don't know where. Why would we know where we are moving to?!) and nothing is more interesting than watching other people's weird life. And so the bucket list of the Bay Area has begun. Meaning, all those places we've wanted to explore in the area but have procrastinated in seeing for the last four years are now suddenly glowing red in our faces and we are a lot less boring as of late. I.E. more things to post about and a lot of weirdness in exploring, moving, and exploring a new place to live is to come.
Life is weird.
Today was another (ANOTHER) base-wide scheduled power outage (see? life is weird), so last night I threw myself onto Pinterest and Yelp and figured out some things to accomplish on our bucket list. And today took us to Fairfield.
We've been to Fairfield a fair (ha, see what I did there) amount, but it's still an hour away so it officially classifies itself as an "adventure". The boys had put the Jelly Belly Factory on their bucket list and, even though we have been there like seven times, it's super fun and it's free, and in the face of yet another government shutdown (i.e. no paycheck), free is a good price for an adventure, even if it's a repeat.
The Jelly Belly factory is the actual factory where they make all the jelly beans in the universe. You take a free (did I mention it was free?) self-guided tour on a glass walkway above the factory, with TV screens at various points explaining what exactly is happening below you.
Local friends: if you have been here before but not in the last six months, go check it out again. They completely revamped the tour and added some great video information. I learned a lot more this time than the last 23932 times we've been there and was thoroughly impressed.
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| Celebrating Abe's birthday by eating his face!! Made entirely out of beans |
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| Look at ALL THOSE JELLY BEANS. LOOK AT IT. |
That soaked up a good couple hours of our day, but we weren't in a hurry to head home to a blacked out house, so we headed to the air force base about ten minutes away and explored the Jimmy Doolittle Air and Space Museum, another great freebie. Half of it is outside next to the flightline, with dozens of decommissioned planes parked out in the open for you to walk around gawk at.
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| Cam wanted to salute. Also the parking lot ropes were made of ordinance shells |
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| The boys standing under this humongous tank transport. This thing was HUMONGOUS |
Bonus round: Camden wore his bomber jacket today and it really worked out into some great photo ops (with a cell phone anyways)
The other half is inside an old hangar with more planes, simulators, and this crazy "engine room" that holds what feels like a hundred different engines, turbines and even the atom bomb (I mean, a shell of one, obviously, because Camden definitely sneezed on it and we are all still alive). They also had a pretty extensive scavenger hunt for the boys that earned them some free ice cream cones and dare I say a little bit of knowledge at the end of it too.
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| Cam sneezed on the Atom Bomb |
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| Calen taking some bombs for a joyride |
Bonus round 2: we had Red Robin gift cards burning holes in our wallets for the past year, and the nearest Red Robin is right up in Fairfield, so a (free, get the theme here?) dinner was in order.
By the time we got home, the power was back on, we were so full of burgers and jelly beans we thought we were going to puke, and we had two things crossed off the bucket list.
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