This week's Monday field trip was a yummy one! We visited the Velvet Ice Cream Factory in Utica, Ohio. We enjoyed a wonderful tour and we FINALLY actually had a beautiful warm day so we could enjoy the lovely grounds as well.
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Our tour guide taught us about the ingredients that are used to make the 60+ flavors of Velvet ice cream. She showed us a video about the history of the company. |
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| Next we headed to the Old Mill and learned about the process of making ice cream. |
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The water wheel is still a functioning part of the factory. Ray was fascinated by it. |
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| Here we are peeking in at the factory in motion. |
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| Fun friends! Giant scoops of ice cream on the walls. I won't name names, but one little one was actually licking the walls. |
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| Of course the tour included ice cream samples. Yum! |
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We spent lots of time playing on the playground and also hiking along a river bank and chasing ducks and geese. |
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And then we discovered this creekbed. The children had a great time exploring and throwing rocks. Adam, of course, was soaking wet. He just can't resist water. |
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After playing for a few hours, we were thirsty and wandered inside to the cafe for some water bottles. We ended up "sampling" another ice cream cone! (Two in one day... such a treat!) |
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We really enjoyed our visit to Utica! (And we even tried out my new mother's day gift - a GPS - and didn't even get lost!) We hope to take daddy for a yummy visit to the ice cream factory this summer.
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