Trip to Krispy Kreme Doughnuts

I'm into super educational field trips.  So today, we leaped up, got in the van by 7:45 a.m., and were at Krispy Kreme doughnuts by 8:15 a.m.

I know what you are thinking. Not very educational. But it was, it was!  And it almost wasn't.

We've gone once before. Krispy Kreme has this wonderful doughnut making area that has clear panels so that patrons can view the doughnuts being made. There are vats of glaze!  Sizzling tubs of hot oil!  Sprinkles!  Chocolate frosting!  Interesting machines that flip the doughnuts over!  The children enjoyed it, especially our mechanically inclined ones.

When we got in the restaurant at 8:15 a.m., there were a few doughnuts that were just going down the final conveyor belt. I assumed that we had hit a lull and that they would start making doughnuts again soon.  So we went over to buy doughnuts so the kids' could have their thoroughly luscious breakfast.

I casually asked the lady at the counter if there would be more doughnuts made today. She said no!  She said that they were done.  I was surprise and disappointed.  We came at 10 a.m. last time and they were making doughnuts. She explained that they had gotten a new machine that made doughnuts much more quickly.

Well, that was wretched. But doughnuts still has to be eaten, so I bought a dozen and the kids settled down to eat them.

And lo and behold, some doughnuts started moving along some conveyor belts.  Over the course of the next hour, we watched some specialty doughnuts being made with a big hand controlled vat.  We also watched as a dozen of the plain doughnuts (which had been made previously) were placed on a conveyor belt which took the doughnuts through a warming oven, down a slope onto another conveyor belt, then around a corner, down another slope onto another conveyor belt, and finally through a waterfall of sugary glaze.  When the doughnuts were dry, an employee put them in a box and gave them to us.  (Yep, I got a SECOND dozen doughnuts to bring home. We don't have doughnuts often, I promise!)

 So, it was a successful field trip.  And we were home before 10.  Some mommies get more field trips done before 10 a.m. than most homeschooling mommies do all day.

The options, and the dozen we picked out.