A million years ago when I was in college, a fellow chocolate fanatic saw on tv that there was a chocolate factory a couple of hours away from where we were in school. There wasn't much to do in the town where I went to college, so road trip 2-3 hours away were common. We traveled to some place in middle of nowhere Indiana (or was it Illinois?) to find that the chocolate factory of our dreams was a tiny house converted into a chocolatier's shop. There was no tour, just a glass case of chocolates. The chocolates were good, but we had dreams of Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory in that 3 hour road trip. \n\nSo I MIGHT have still had dreams of Willy Wonka when I first heard about the Ethel M Chocolate Factory. I mean, it's in the Las Vegas area! Everything in LV is big and over the top, right? Well, maybe the casinos are, but the chocolate factories are not. \n\nIf they renamed it Ethel M Chocolates, it would be a more accurate description, but I suppose they would not gain tourists like myself with big Willy Wonka dreams. There wasn't much going on in the factory when we were there, but I don't think we really missed much. The \"factory\" is all viewed from a small corridor of a few windows to peek into a commercial-style kitchen while they make the chocolates. You do get a chocolate at the end of the \"tour\"! \n\nAt the end is the shop where you can buy all the yummy chocolates you want. The shop is totally worth the visit, as long as you don't go there expecting to see Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. \n\nOh, and the cactus garden is a garden of cacti. Enough said!
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