bluebell flashback

The day before we moved we finally drove out to brenham, Tx where the bluebell factory is and took the tour!  It's hard to get out to it cause it's only on weekdays during the day and Code is normally working, so we took our chance.  It was so much fun! I highly recommend it-as well as this great BBQ place just off of 290 just before the factory.

The tour was us and a bunch of grandpas and grandmas who loved jake.  It was cool seeing all of the different assembly lines and the machines pouring the ice cream and putting on the lids etc.  I was really impressed with the quality of the products-they make all of the toppings that go into the ice cream there on site/grown locally/fresh like the fruit or the cookie doughs etc.  I'm gonna miss blue bell-sigh.  I've now lived in two of the three places they have their factories (houston-an hour away, and BrokenArrow, OK).  Pretty cool stuff.
The drive up there was really pretty country-hard to believe, but that's what February in south Texas looks like:

The tour was about 45 min, but the best part was at the end when they took you to this cute lil creamery onsite and you each got a free scoop (and not a chintzy lil thing either).  They gave us a free scoop for Jake too so we got 3 free scoops of ice cream and if we wanted, any additional scoop was just a buck-crazy!  We bought a cute lil magnet of a carton of bluebell to put on our fridge and they wrapped it in a lil mini ice cream container-if you bought a bigger item like a t-shirt they'd have put it in a half-gallon bluebell container-how cute is that?!

"we eat all we can-and we sell the rest."

Bluebell baby!

smiling with daddy:

It was the perfect quintessential last texas activity before we moved.  Afterwards we stopped at Chapell Hill BBQ and it was AWESOME.

when you know it's a good bbq place:

full-on ROLLS of paper towels at EACH table :)

Jake contented himself with his burp cloth

yummy brisket, ribs, and chicken-we'll miss good bbq!