Unfortunately I didn't have time to type this out longhand, these are just my rough notes of what happened. This is probably a better format anyway!

Sunday, September 10th
- flew to Vegas through Chicago
- checked into Hilton Grand on "the Strip"

Monday
- arrived for breakfast at SDN Day (for developers)
- welcome meeting, introductions
- table mixer: met Daniel McWeeney, Ed Herrmann, Ryan Quackenboss and Phillip Young from Colgate-Palmolive
- lunch
- demo of Scripting Language Tool (and code generation) by John Astill
- Dan's unplanned demo of his Rails app
- my Rails and RadRails demo (schedule)
- beer and sausage at Hofbrauhaus

Tuesday
- first day of full conference (5000 people!)
- arrived later and missed keynote, hung out in SDN Clubhouse
- talked to Craig Cmehil, Eric Wood
- DemoJam - Dan and Ed win!

Wednesday
- my BOAF talk went really well and they let it go long (thanks Craig)
- Apple Store in Fashion Show Mall
- club sandwich came with mustard (wtf?)

Thursday
- my Ruby on Rails and RadRails demo in the SDN Theatre
- when people found out it worked with SAP backends, that created demand for an unplanned demo of Dan's Rails app in the BOAF area!
- LOTS of people interested in Rails once they saw it
- GameWorks that night, kicked ass at motocross game ;)
- drinks with Craig and the Colgate-Palmolive boys, thanks!

Friday, September 15th
- woke up at 6am local (Pacific)
- flew back to Ottawa through Chicago, arrived at 9:30pm