After yesterday's post, and still in the first few days of the year, I think it's appropriate to provide some retrospective this week, focused twofold on our very eventful year of 2010 and some of the public spaces we inhabited. For those of you that lived through all this with us, I hope you can have as much fun reliving these moments as I do. For those who didn't, I hope there are shots here that communicate a little bit of the enjoyment they represent to me.

Above are a few of the most excellent people in the world, outside the Old New Orleans Rum Distillery in East New Orleans. The trip I took with these guys to New Orleans was an unspeakably great moment, and impossible to forget, considering especially the summer it introduced. I really can't think of a more impressive way to have kicked things off, and I hope everybody had half as much fun as I did. Also, being reminded of the Cajun Tea* that Shye and Bill are flaunting here is gonna make me crave it for the rest of the day.

The summer that Sarah and I had was a hurricane of a time, and I suspect it may have been pretty miserable had we been without the amazing support and distraction from the amazing family and friends we're somehow lucky enough to have. Plenty more to come.

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*Cajun Tea

1.5 oz Old New Orleans Cajun Spice Rum
.5 oz Simple Syrup
Iced Tea (unsweetened)

Fill a highball glass with ice. Add rum and simple syrup, and then top off the glass with unsweetened tea. Garnish with lemon.