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| - My wife and I came to Vegas to get away just for fun and I tried to look up other stuff to do other than the usual drinking, gambling, casino site seeing, and shopping. We wanted to try something new, well I did at least. While researching for other things to do I came across Ethel M Chocolates, which got me kind of excited, I'm a nerd like that.
While driving there, it seems kind of far from the strip even though it's only about 5-7 miles. I think it made it seem like a long drive because it's about 4-5 miles on local roads, after you get off the freeway. Once we got there, it had it's own private parking lot, which I liked, also there was plenty of parking. I don't know if it's because we choose the right time to go or because not that many people go there, but we got easy parking so i can't complain.
The first thing we noticed after we got out of our car was the cactus farm. I was kind of surprised, because I figured they would want to advertise their store first, but I guess that's how the owners built that land.
The wife and I decided to walk the cactus garden first before entering the factory. It was actually quite nice, nothing spectacular about it, but it's nice to just walk around and relax. If you're lucky like us, you might see a critter or two, we saw a rabbit, which was nice. I liked how they had a variety of cactus plants and how they had signs for each of the cactus to distinguish which cactus you were looking at.
The cactus garden a good size, probably about the size of 3-4 basketball courts. I'm just guessing, but I could be wrong.
After the walk, we decided to see the factory, but when we walked in it was a store, we were kind of surprised, until I went all the way in the back and I noticed that there was a walk way which allowed you to see their machines and how they prepared their chocolate. I was kind of disappointed because nobody was working their machines, this was the main reason why I wanted to check this place out, we must have came at a bad time.
My wife deiced to buy some chocolate for herself and her co-workers. She bought sugar free chocolate for herself! Can you believe it! Sugar free at a chocolate factory! I made fun of her for awhile, but then I tried it, it was actually pretty good! It seemed a little pricey at first, but after tasting it, i think it's pretty worth it since the quality of chocolate seemed good.
There's also what seemed like a drink/ice cream bar there, were you can purchase drinks and ice cream of course. We decided not to try any of those because it seemed a little pricey, but I think that I will try it the next time we go.
There's also an M&M store at this location, but I don't think it's worth it, I walked in and then out because I realized there's an M&M building on the main strip and it's better to go there.
Over all the experience was good, it's good to try something new and different. Their chocolate quality is pretty good and I would go back and buy some more. We plan to go back closer to Christmas because I see people posting pictures of Christmas light decorated cactus.
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