welcome to bluebell!

This weekend, my wonderful cousin Lisa has been in town.  Baby Kate has loved having a new friend to play with and she and "Cousin Lisa" have become very good friends.  It has been a non-stop party all weekend.

On Thursday we went to the Blue Bell Factory.  If you have not been lucky enough to visit Texas in your lifetime then you probably have never had the chance to enjoy Blue Bell ice cream.  It is the best, most delicious, most creamiest ice cream you will ever eat.  (And this is coming from someone who worked for a year at Ben and Jerry's.)

The Blue Bell factory is in Brenham, Texas which is about two hours away from Sugar Land.  It was a beautiful day and the drive to Brenham is quite lovely so we decided to make the voyage to see where the wondrous ice cream is made.

The tour was fun.  We saw a lot of machines and not as much ice cream as I would have thought.  The best part came when my Grandma, Lisa, and I saw several employees dumping out full pints of ice cream onto the ground.  We asked the tour guide what was going on and that only seemed to fluster her.  She refused to even acknowledge our question.  That only made the shenanigans more funny so we started knocking on the windows, yelling, "Wait!  Don't dump out that ice cream!  Save it for us!"

My mom had already been on the tour so she waited outside with Katelyn.  (Katelyn appreciates good ice cream but she is a bit too young to appreciate an ice cream factory tour.)  While outside, Katelyn spent the hour waving to every group of people that walked by.  My mom said that people were stopping to watch the spectacle.  It was like Katelyn was the unofficial mascot of Blue Bell welcoming everyone to the factory.

 

At the end of our tour, we were each offered a free scoop of ice cream at the shop and we sat down to enjoy an ice cream feast together.  Extra scoops were only a dollar so we bought several different flavors and shared them all.  It was fun to try flavors that I wouldn't buy an entire pint of.  (I don't usually branch out from my usual Butter Crunch or Krazy Kookie Dough.)

We had such a great time seeing where the best ice cream on earth is made. :)