So I've been trying to spend more quality time with Samarah and looking for activities I can take her to go do. I saw a billboard for the Peppermint Place and did a little research and found out they did 'tours' of the people that decorate candy. I had about 1 hour in between getting off work and having to be home for a furnace tune up.. so we ran over there quick! Its in a little strip mall right off the 500 East American Fork exit. I told her it was a surprise, and what made it even better, was that we had just read a Curious George book a few nights before about George being at a Chocolate Factory.. haha.
So inside, there is like a candy shop and lots of different fun gifts. And there is a big section of wrap around windows where you can watch people decorate candy. And I must say, that I was impressed. I didn't know people still hand decorated these mass production items. So many things are going to machines these days that its easy to assume a machine does the designs.
These ladies worked at such speed and hand decorated each and every item. The pink and blue things right in front of Samarah were like little baby shoes and they put frostings shoelaces and ruffles like socks on each one of them. And another lady was doing a rabbit on each decoration and and some baby chicks.. It was incredible actually to see them doing it. Their poor backs though ha they lean hunched over probably all day for work.
Anyway, neat little thing to go in. It doesn't take long to watch and then look around the store, but it was fun. I wanted to get a chocolate for her, like George, but the line was too long so I just let her pick out a candy cane :)
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