Daily Archives: March 23, 2010
Eau de toilette – part deux…
Well, we didn’t get started out today until about 1pm.
Nick had heard about a chocolate factory tour (with free samples!) here in Las Vegas.
So a little Googling sent us to Ethel M’s Chocolate Factory and Cactus Garden.
They have a self-guided tour of the plant where you can watch the candy being made.
It turns out that Ethel M Chocolates was started by the founder of Mars Candy after he retired from running the company. He wanted a custom candy manufacturer to make small batches of candy by hand using high-quality ingredients.
And they take their chocolate very seriously. Just look at these signs posted around the factory.
I had never seen how chocolate is grown so this was interesting.
The pod at the top is a cocoa pod which contains the cocoa beans on the bottom left.
And finally we came to the most important part.
THE FREE SAMPLES!
Then it was on to the Cactus Garden that was on the grounds of the Chocolate Factory. Not exactly sure why a chocolate factory would have a Cactus Garden, but it was interesting.
Leaving the factory we drove over to Camping World so I could check on getting another pedestal base for our toilet.
Turns out that I can buy a new toilet for almost $100 less than I can buy a new pedestal. So we drove over to Vegas Trailer Supply to just buy a new one. I’m tried of fooling with this one.
Since no one wanted to hold the new one in their laps, Nick and Terry stayed at the store for a few minutes while we took the new one home, and then came back and picked them up.
By this time everyone was hungry, so we drove over to Buffet Asia to try out another Chinese buffet. It was slightly better than the one last night, but not by much.
After this we headed home and I got started putting the new toilet, well, trying to, anyway.
It turns out that, although this was the same model toilet from the same manufacturer, they had decided to completely change the base mount where it fastens to the floor.
So I’ll have to try again tomorrow after getting some more screws.
More then…
