AGAIG’s Hamptons arm had a busy yet exceptionally fun long weekend scuttling all over the East End for the inaugural weekend of summer!
While “headquarters”(aka our beautiful share house with an ocean view) is located in Montauk we trekked everywhere from Water Mill to South Hampton to Amagansett soaking in as many Memorial Day weekend festivities as we could squeeze out of our collection of wedges and brightly-patterned maxi dresses.
Sunday evening at the Surf Lodge was definitely the highlight of the weekend. Alexandra Richards spun an eclectic mix of music in her ubiquitous cutoff denim shorts that had bodies dancing all over the front bar area, back porch and everywhere in between. Theodora Richards and Eliza Dushku danced feverishly by her side while Sam Talbot, Kristian Laliberte, Tory Burch and other socialite types did laps before committing to a location.
Stavros Niarchos spent a considerable part of the evening making out with an uber-thin mystery blond on a beach chair before joining the dance party.
FRIDAY, May 22
Friday night we kept it low key and local, dancing away the evening at Montauk pub the Point. The music was circa mid-1990’s and we liked it. Almost as much as our new BFF who stood out amongst the sea of Polos, jumpers and white tank tops in a full tuxedo.
SATURDAY, May 23
Saturday was spent almost entirely at two of the crown jewels of the eastern most point of Long Island: the beach and Stephen Talk House.
The afternoon was blessed with beautiful bright sunshine that allowed us to bust out our new candy-colored bikinis despite our iphones insisting that there were currently “light showers” in Montauk. They might want to look into that. We took those rays for all they were worth before we ordered enough fish tacos from 668 on Main St. to make us their new best friend.
The Stephen Talk House in Amagansett, where we spent Saturday evening, is a must-do. Kelly Bensimon of Real Housewives of New York “fame ”agrees. Kelly spent most of the evening jumping about wildly in her curve-hugging white T shirt in a ”if you are not yet paying attention to me, well, you should be” way but took a break to ask me to snap a picture of her and her friends on her BlackBerry.
Next time I will take a longer break from my own dance party (the live band was playing favorites like American Girl so I had bigger fish to fry...like dancing on a bench with my new friend John from Memphis) and ask her what her secret is to running through the streets of Manhattan with her hair down in the middle of traffic.
SUNDAY, May 24
Sunday morning brought Real Housewives run-in #2: while we were out getting breakfast from the Bake Shop in town, we encountered Bethenny Frankel and an unidentified (yet handsome) brown haired gentleman in front of the visiting craft fair tents. If I had not been so focused on my egg white wrap I might have remembered to tell her that Kelly said hello.
While the gray skies circa noon on Sunday were rather foreboding, we piled in for a road trip anyways. Final destination: a house party in Water Mill that turned out to be straight from a 1980’s teen movie, with a Hamptons twist, of course.
The outdoor bash was sponsored by Red Bull and featured musical stylings from band Rubix Cube, who provided multiple costume changes and a multi-platform performance. Literally. The lead singer jumped from roof to roof and even sang while up to his neck in the pool.
The band, a regular in the Hamptons private party circle, plays mostly 80’s music sprinkled with party-pleasers like the Killers, which led to a raucous dance party in various states of undress. Other festivities included an impromptu limbo contest, an outdoor beer pong tournament and boys jumping from the roof (and kegs) into the pool. Someone even started a trend of taking shots through the Noodles, those foam tubes that seem to be must-have accessories for any pool worth its weight in water.
We capped off the day with a spectacular dinner of baked clams, lobster ravioli and chocolate covered strawberry trees (just try them, we promise) at Aqua East in Montauk.
Best part: hardly a cloud in the sky after the morning fog shrugged off.
MONDAY, May 25
We spent the morning at the beach before heading back to the city and back to reality.
*There may or may not have also been a pit stop at Candy Kitchen in Bridgehampton on the drive home for some double-scoop ice cream cones. Apparently we stare bravely in the face of the prospect of being back in a bathing suit in four days.
Can’t wait for next weekend, see you out East!
XOXO
AGAIG
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