saturday started around noonish. we went to eat at mesa grill, bobby flay’s restaurant. the food was pretty good there and the lunch menu is actually reasonably priced. it wasn’t that crowded. i remember watching a food network special on the making of the restaurant.

it looked like the whole affair was pretty hectic, but the restaurant is swanky and nice. it’s much smaller than i thought it would be and it didn’t REALLY flaunt the bobby flay name too much, except for some cookbooks you can buy at the front.

after lunch, i went back to the hotel to meet up with diana who flew in later than the rest of us. we decided to go hang out by the pool, enjoy some of the sun and catch up on what was going on with each other.

john and gemma eventuall met up with us and then we all headed over to dinner at the mgm grand. we opted to eat at this asian fusion place which was pretty good.

we originally tried to get into pure, but the line was something like three hours long. ridiculous, i tell you. just ridiculous. so we opted to go to studio 54, which was actually a lot better than i expected it to be. the club itself is pretty small, but the entertainment was cool and the free drinks for the ladies was a bonus.

some people had a little too much to drink, so after they were put to bed, john and i went out gambling. it was actually a lot of fun gambling with him and we had a good time until around 5ish, i think. i was down $20 by the end of the evening.