So this weekend we got away from it all with a Polark family trip to fabulous Las Vegas. Oh the fun that we did have! We gamed. We shopped. We took in the show We dined. We relaxed and reflected.

Key Takeaways:
- This new Elvis Cirque du Soleil show… it ain’t all that. In fact, most of us agreed it was only close to being some of that, and far from being all that. Mostly just a big Las Vegas stage show without as much crazy French Circus-y stuff like we’ve come to expect.
- Ate at Bobby Flay restaurant again, and again this was the best meal we had.
- I finally learned the rudiments of craps and I am so proud of myself - probably because it only cost Jim P about $100 for me to get the hang of it.

Last night I went with Kyle and Barnicle to a hog-butchering lesson from a local chef. It started a little like a Satanic ritual, with us all taking seats around a kitchen table loaded with half a hog. But the chef quickly got to work explaining to us how pigs work and breaking it down… telling us how to cook what parts and so forth. And we all stood up and watched and asked questions. I asked tons of questions I didn’t even expect to have. We got to take home some different cuts at the end, and now we’re game-planning buying our own half of a consciously-raised, hormone-free boutique hog.