Cargill Family Day

For those of you who don't know, John works for Cargill. It is a corn processing plant that makes corn syrup, corn starch, corn anything really. It's pretty much one of the biggest food industry giants in the world. Yup. I know. Kinda....ironic? that we seek to live a lifestyle that is additive/preservative free, grown from the land, straight from the farm, etc etc etc. And yet that lifestyle that we strive to live is actually funded by a company that makes bazillions of dollars in making processed, fake, highly sugared foods. Hmmm.....
*gotta get food on the table somehow*
Any hoot-a-majooty. Every couple of years, this Cargill plant opens the doors to the employee families. They offer tours, prizes, meals, free PPE (personal protective equipment)  ;-), etc to all the employee families. This is a pretty big deal because the plant is closed to ALL non employees. ALL. They are very very very strict about security. On Saturday they held a family day. So we packed up the kids and headed to CarGAIL(as Yvette would say). I must say it was rather fun and very nice to see where John works and what he does. They had a lot for the kids. There was a corn pool with prizes the kids had to climb in and dig out. They gave childsized PPE to every kid (hardhat, work gloves, glasses, and ear plugs). And we got to jump on a tour bus and drive around the plant, see some of the work areas, and walk around a little bit. It really was great. The kids had so much fun. And I think it was really great for John too.

*Wyatt was the cutest thing out there...okay, maybe not the cutest (I'm kinda partial to 30something men in hardhats, utility glasses, and black tshirts....but that's just me). Wyatt got into it. He wore it all and checked out everything John pointed at and made comments accordingly. It was really really funny.