Wow, what an EPIC week in which to celebrate the coming of the New Year! I won’t recap my 2008 in bullet point form, nor will create a list of my aspirations and resolutions for 2009. I WILL however, share the last week or so, which was full of many fantastic moments, and some less than fantastic too.

I’ve known K since school – she’s fantastic, really she is. And this year she proved it once again by inviting me down to camp on her section at Waihi Beach. And not only me, oh no, she gave me an OPEN INVITE. Little did she know what was going to happen – I invited The Square, who invited their friends and before you know it there were just over twenty of us setting up camp on her section and it was GREAT! We had our own little tent village going on, and oh the things we got up to!

There was some epic beach cricket games, the start up of an acoustic radio sing along which was incredibly novel. We swam in the ocean, and sunbathed on rocks beside waterfalls. We danced all night to Tiki Tane (I’m so in love!) and walked the 7.4 km back to the campsite in the dark, just cause we could. There were day trips to the Mount, where there was more sunbathing and bbq’s and beach rugby/touch. There was drinking of mohitos, and bakery goodness and endless games of Bastard. There was tent water proofing and fireworks and frisbee and walks through Karangahake Gorge. There was sunburn and embarrassing videos and cooking on little camp stoves.

On New Years night there was kisses at midnight, and singing on the beach and more fireworks and more mohitos and dancing by the fire. There was alot of love, and alot of dramatic couple fights that tent walls couldn’t block out (thankfully none of them involved The Boy or I, but my heart cried for those that were hurting).

It was an EPIC week or so, and while I’m at home now I can’t believe how lucky I was to be a part of such a crazy week. I may not have appreciated it so much at the time (particularly when it was raining the tent decided that being waterproof was overrated) but sitting at home in the city while the oppressive heavy heat is here to stay I can honestly say that I miss the camping.

Good times where had with many good people. And what better way to ring in the New Year?