Laura in the Hamptons Says...

Fridays in Sag Harbor cannot be beat. Dinner at Beacon, a waterfront restaurant and bar and caught another beautiful sunset. Walked a half block to town to pop into some terrific boutiques and pick up a sexy pair of slinky sandals, change up footing and head over to the American Hotel (packed) for the special-sorbet and tequila-tonight's was raspberry. Two drinks down and head to Grappa for a look see around the bar for men, no luck so move on to dive bar Murphs, some lookers so we stay a while and play ring toss and chill in the outdoor area. Cruise home at a respectable 2:15am.

Saturday friends go to East Hampton Point for frozen mango coladas catch the sunset on their deck and meet some Swedes. We next hit Amagansett-hard. Indian Wells is jammed again and the vibe is upbeat. Drinks, some shots, repeat and chat it up with quite a few city folk. Order food, slip out the back and head to Stephen Talkhouse through the back (thank you Nanette), throwing elbows to get to the outdoor area and realize there is no way we are going to get through another 10 minutes with this crowd. Nanette decides to split home and chill on our deck, I make the call and drive to Saracen in Wainscott to get on the dance floor with Mats from Belgium. Saracen is hopping and they are cranking 70-early 80 dance music and we are having a ball. Three glasses of Veuve and a Stoli Raspberry later we call it quits at 3am.

Sunday I'm up and at em' by 9am. Packing for an all day boat trip. By noon Nanette and I are in Sag Harbor to meet Bob for the boat ride out to area between Sag and Shelter Island for the yearly hook up. All day event with hundreds and hundreds of boats, kayakers, canoes, surf boarders, rafts etc. People eat, drink and jump from boat to boat all day socializing while listening to the sound of three live bands play from the floating dock. We have a primo spot and hook up with six boats (later to be ten total-two of which are filled with local firemen!) This is one of the craziest things to do all summer and everyone is in total party mode! Met tons and tons of people, kayak a bit and manage to not spill my drink as I swam from boat to boat. Our fireman buddies and EH Point pals kept us fed and our boats all stayed tied up until 6:30. We split but I hear the hang was still going until close to 9pm. Awesome and exhausting. Will pass on going to East Hampton Point for Jamaican Sunday...