Once I deliberate a shock weekend away for my husband Jae and myself—our first {couples}’ getaway in six years—I selected a vacation spot I’d spent a lifetime listening to about: Las Vegas. From numerous sit-com situations to fascinating travelogues, I had nice expectations for Sin Metropolis.
Casinos, in fact, with high-stakes gamblers wagering into the morning. Dazzling reveals that includes magicians, glamorous showgirls and internationally famend entertainers. Elvis impersonators on each road nook. Wedding ceremony chapels at each intersection.
And chickens.
Chickens?
Okay, possibly not chickens.
I actually wasn’t searching for chickens in Las Vegas, actually. It was our first afternoon there, and I used to be within the Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas present outlets. There are fairly just a few places, however this one was within the Discussion board Outlets at Caesar’s Palace.
I used to be searching for souvenirs to convey house for the youngsters, and it so occurred that this explicit retailer had a complete part for sweet. Not that I used to be going to convey the youngsters sweet, absolutely understanding that their stockings would quickly be filled with treats. Nonetheless, one explicit candy caught my consideration: gummi hen toes.
Critically?
I had simply watched a program on Meals Community through which hen toes have been a key ingredient. Sorry, not my cup of tea. And now right here have been gummi hen toes, taunting me.
I requested one of many gross sales associates if individuals truly bought these, given the handfuls of different confections obtainable. To my shock, she instructed me they have been certainly one of their high promoting sweets, after jelly beans.
She had no thought why. However she knowledgeable me that “everybody loves them.” Certain sufficient, as I regarded via the keychains, magnets and T-shirts, I noticed not one however 4 individuals purchase these gummis.
I wasn’t certainly one of them. However, as longtime readers know, I see chickens in all places. And now my poultry sense was tingling, heightened and looking out for the chickens round Las Vegas.
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Peepin’ Poultry
I didn’t have lengthy to attend. The subsequent morning, the Comedy on Deck tour we took to Hoover Dam stopped at historic Boulder Metropolis. There, only a block or so from the historic Boulder Dam Resort, I had the second hen encounter of my journey.
An egg encounter, truly.
Sculpted by artist Kimber Fiebiger, “Eggcited” options Humpty Dumpty sitting atop a stack of egg-related books, together with “Unscrambling Taxing Issues” and “Off the Wall Considering.” It was fairly presumably the final kind of statue I anticipated to see in a city that commemorates the heart-wrenching historical past of the Hoover Dam. However I suppose a little bit levity is all the time welcome.
After this, it was virtually as if chicken-related gadgets jumped out at me throughout Vegas. There was the particular person wearing a hen swimsuit standing outdoors Planet Hollywood, hoping to pose for pictures for a handout. (I do consider that Captain America, the Flash, and Batman had higher luck with the vacationers.) There was Eggslut, a contemporary, egg-centric cafe situated inside The Cosmopolitan. There was the blingy, brightly lit and blaring slot machine that includes flapping white chickens apparently laying golden eggs. (Sorry, no pictures allowed contained in the casinos.)
After which there was that fabulous pair of sterling-silver egg cups at Tiffany’s, for which I’d need to promote 360 dozen eggs with a purpose to afford their buy value.
Fortunate Girls
On our final night in Vegas, Jae and I strolled Las Vegas Boulevard. We took in all of the lights and sights that the Strip has to supply. There may be a lot extra to see and expertise than what we managed to see throughout our three days there.
We need to return, and never simply to as soon as once more expertise the sensational brilliance of the Strip. We additionally want to uncover the true Las Vegas past the boulevard: the one with close by snow-capped peaks and red-rock canyons. The one the place residents can preserve yard birds.
Sure, you possibly can preserve as much as 10 hens even in essentially the most densely populated residential districts of Las Vegas. I by no means would have even suspected this had I not struck up a dialog with the on line casino safety guard who stopped me from taking a photograph of that hen slot machine. It seems he and his spouse preserve a quartet of bantams of their yard.
However then once more, something goes in Sin Metropolis, even chickens … though most Las Vegas guests will consider the 6-foot-tall White Leghorn standing outdoors superstar chef Richard Blais’ restaurant, The Crack Shack, reasonably than the yard selection. Typically decked out in native sports-team apparel, the Crack Shack hen is difficult to overlook.
We look ahead to seeing it—and different poultry factors of curiosity—the following time we go to.
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