At the cheapest pool yet Isaiah and I spent the morning swimming, working out and taking a shower. $2 doesn't buy much though, as the workout room is dwarfed by most home gyms and I saw a cockroach slip out of a shower drain.
What to do after a cockroach sighting? A buffet. A small Chinese buffet, one that had surprisingly delicious tortilla chips, french fries, and fried chicken.
For dessert Isaiah had a delicious surprise...a chocolate factory tour. Forrest Mars, creator of the Mars candy company, after "retiring" created a line of finer, more expensive chocolates, naming the brand after his mother Ethel who inspired his love for chocolate. Here we got to try samples, view the factory and tour the large cactus garden which was dressed up for Christmas.
In a hurry to see Hoover Dam before dark we had to skip the garden's light show. In the end it was dark when we reached the dam and so got a quick and crappy picture at a pull out and headed into Arizona.
I visited Ethel's chocolate factory in 2006 summer. It was too hot to see much of the cactus garden, but the chocolate sampling was great :) Was also in and on top of Hoover Dam around 1980 or so. Do they still let people inside for tours?
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Hi Brian- I agree we liked the chocolate a lot. I can't confirm if they let people tour the dam but I do know security was very tight. So much so that we just drove by to look and then left.
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