There was an elegant dinner at the Pastafari restaurant. But it was too hot! The A/C had broken, so we were boiling. Conversation died as I was in a trance.

During this there was a contest for a free week for two at Hedonism next year. The winner was a friend of mine, who is getting married later this week. He strongly suspects that he wasn’t competing, but was gifted the prize. The arguments for that were that to get past the first few rounds required drawing good cards from a deck. The people passing around the cards were known magicians. And there was a logic to the way he made it past the final round in the word association game. I did talk to a competitor later who swears he wasn’t told to throw the match.

When dinner was over, the rain was torrential. I decided to accept it instead of fighting it. I wandered around in a swimsuit and a waterproof case for the camera. I scouted several places, but they were all dead as people took shelter in their rooms.

Early to bed now.