Last night was a blast. Everything, as always, was perfect. I didn’t think Lori could ever top any of her previous parties. but she did it again. Shultz and his son Agustus arrived around 5:15 as they drove up from Denver and were anticipating more traffic. Everyone else showed up right on time about 6.
We’re lucky as we have such a great group of friends. You couldn’t find a better fit of people if you tried. A lot of that is because we’ve been together for so long. With us all getting together once a week, almost every week, for years, you really get to know each other. The girls all get together with us a bunch too as we always do things throughout the year to include them. Carla, when leaving, thanked Lori and said, see you at the Super Bowl party, ha! Lori is unquestionably the best hostess and throws the best parties! This is the fourth year for our Fellowship Christmas party.
This was the first year for Davy and Abby who couldn’t believe what a great time it was and were so thankful to now be our neighbors and be part of the group. They’ve become really good friends in a short amount of time. We’ve known them for years but were never that close. They of course knew most of our group already. Abby and Lori were talking and Lori later told me Abby said, here comes your Ralph Lauren model husband, ha ha! That’s quite the statement coming from the owners of Gorsuch! I was teasing Lori later that night that now I’m a Ralph Lauren model, funny.
Jagger knew everyone and was a joy to have here. He had a fun time too. He played bartender and made the girls all Green Gardners, which is the signature drink from Nobu. The food was fantastic as well. Shultz brought ten cigars back from Barcelona, when he was there in September. Now these weren’t just any cigar, these were some special Cuban that was only made for Fidel Castro. Clark told me they had to be like $1500 for the box of ten. Mark said you can’t get these anywhere and kept asking Shultz how he not only got one, but got ten! I forget the actual name, but they were super smooth and really good. We all enjoyed them. I haven’t been smoking much with this being just the second cigar since the Halloween party on October 6th, so it gave me a huge buzz. Davy doesn’t smoke much either and we were saying, we felt like we just smoked a huge joint.
James was telling us all about the benefit show in L.A. a week ago. Funny to get all the back stories about all the so-called celebs. James always says, why do these people think anyone wants to hear their opinion on anything. As you know, he’s just one of us, and that’s why we all hang together, as we all see him like that too. Us, James and Addy and Ben and Eleni are going to this couple’s house for New Years. I told them last night that if dinner is at 7, we’d better be celebrating on East Coast time as no way I’m lasting until midnight, anywhere.
Ty called in sick again today as he has a really bad cold. He’ll be coming home today as I think Madi’s family leaves for California today. I’m picking up a turkey today from Casey who owns the meat markets up here. He had a couple left over from Thanksgiving and Lori did such a great job, I said I’d take another one. We’ll cook it up just for the leftovers.
Great weather up here. Wasn’t even really that cold last night. 8am now. Shultz and his son are still sleeping downstairs. His wife wasn’t feeling well so that’s why he brought his son instead of Jane.
Three days left! Enjoy. God Bless.