Can you say Holy Sugar?!?

Today we(the girls and I) went on a field trip with McKenzie's preschool to the Sweets Candy Factory. They have been looking forward to go going for the whole week. So here are some pictures before we left:

Madisynn couldn't or wouldn't keep her eyes open so I took multiple shots. I love McKenzie's face in all of them. She is the warden and is making sure Madisynn keeps her eyes open! So here they are:

But finally the only way to get her eyes to stay open was our favorite pic to do together is sticking our tongues out:So finally after that shot we were able to get into the car and go. We were already running late, and I wasn't exactly sure where the factory was. We made it just in time though! We had to hang our coats up, check in our purses, cameras, cell phones, jewelry, and we had to wear hair nets. The kids were all so excited to wear them! They looked like a bunch of Umpa Lumpas! We got to see some interesting things. A couple of them were: how to make salt water taffy, and chocolate covered raspberry sticks. Something else that was interesting was they have chocolate flowing through pipes all throughout the building. Someone asked the question what do they do with the chocolate in the pipes when they were done. The tour guide said they never shut down because the factory runs 24/7. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to break open one of those pipes and drink the chocolate? Yum!

I think the best part of the tour were the samples. The kids devoured them! Madisynn shoved a whole piece of chocolate in her mouth, followed by a chocolate raspberry stick. She had chocolate all over her mouth. She enjoyed it immensely!!! Kenzie says her favorite parts of the tour were seeing the taffy, and of course getting candy! I wish I could say the best part of the tour was getting the samples, but I didn't try any. I've decided to go without candy this year. It was so hard, but I said no. It smelled wonderful though! My favorite part was watching how they stretched the taffy. At the end of the tour, McKenzie's teacher had ordered little packets of Salt water taffy for all of the kids. So I took home 2 sugar crazed kiddos!

Here are some pictures of the Umpa Lumpas:

McKenzie had a little bit of chocolate left on her face from her samples:Madisynn well she had a lot of chocolate left over from her samples!:And lastly one last picture of the 3 Umpa Lumpas:I so wish Matt was able to come. He missed out on all of the action! I told him we would have to go again with just our family. He was totally all for that! The best part it's free!!! =)