Who knew what we would find in Richmond, California

A fun place that we found in Richmond, CA was the Jelly Belly jelly bean factory. Flo and Cheryl enjoyed the Jelly Belly Volks Wagon car - fun driving for sure.

On 1 Jelly Belly Lane we found a fun and delicious candy factory tour.

Pearl & Co found a place to walk the girls outside the factory tour.

First thing we saw when we walked in was jelly beans everywhere.

Even mosaic jelly bean portraits made with real Jelly Belly beans - these were poster sized images.

The latest one was this one of the Charles and Katherine.

We could buy tons of assorted flavors of jelly beans by the pound - some of the flavors were pretty unbelievable - other than 'chocolate pudding' jelly beans they had pretty funny flavors like 'rotten eggs' - 'barf' - 'booger' 'yellow pencils' (really!!) - even 'mint toothpaste' beans (for after the rotten eggs and others of course).

They had lots of other candies too - like Co's favorite- candy corn.

Here's our crew - Co, Pearl, Cheryl, and Flo among the fun candy.... yes we bought lots of Jelly Belly candy for the road and for gifts (wonder how many gifts will make it to those we bought them for).

The other discovery we found in Richmond, Californai was this great Rosie the Riveter Memorial.

Here Cheryl reads the photos on a steel sculpture.  The sculpture is made to look like the beginning of a ship because many of the women worked in the shipyards which helped build ships during World War II

Double click on this image to see a little information that we saw. On the west coast, 25% of all shipyard workers were women.

On the ground were great inlaid cement tiles with sayings, quotes, and facts - fascinating.  Double click on this one to read about the chaperones that were assigned to the women who worked in factories and shipyards.

This tile had timeline facts of things that happened during the WWII time that women were working in the factories and steelyards.

I love this engraving, it says " You must tell your children, putting modesty aside, that - without women there would have been no spring".  Which I am sure she means that the war would have not ended in the fall as it was because the women made a difference in the defense building of ships.