Beached As

Sarah and Dan from the cruise whom Walter and I stayed with on our day through Hamilton were kind enough to invite us to their place in Tairua for New Years. As Carey explained in his timely posting... Tairua is a lot like a NZ version of the Hamptons. We were staying in Quogue across the water from the blue bloods in Pauanui. It was a solid week of sitting around drinking beer, sitting on the beach, grilling, and mostly doing nothing. New years was a surprisingly decent fireworks show and some more drinking. Nothing off the hook or particularly crazy but certainly a nice contrast to the typical ass freezing in NYC. The highlight had to be the smugness that Carey and I had knowing that all of you were still stuck in 2008.