Emily's Musings

Jelly Belly, a Geyser & some Port

Continuing the very eclectic tour of the area, Greg and I headed to the ever-wonderful Jelly Belly factory tour this afternoon He even had a jelly belly shaped hamburger in the cafe! I loaded up on the requisite Belly Flops (the factory seconds where they're misshaped but still wonderful) and some of the new JBz (chocolate candies coated with jelly belly shells).

Then we continued up through Napa and visited Calistoga's Old Faithful Geyser (shown here) which turns out to possibly be able to maybe predict earthquakes (but they're not really sure). We were the only people there, but it was quite cool to see.

We headed back to Napa and stopped at a holiday port tasting and learned a lot about different port wines and what to pair them with (the combination of the syrah with the chocolate truffles was divine, but it may just have been because of the truffles). Greg continued to wear his spiffy Jelly Belly tour paper hat during the gathering, which actually turned out to be a very interesting conversation piece.