What's a nudge between friends?

We certainly don't want to be nudges but New Year's Eve is 2 nights from now...2 shopping days .... and we will taste some sparkling wines Saturday, New Year's Eve from 3-6. 132 Front St. Greenport.  Got it.
'nuf said.

If you stay home that evening about 10pm or so the NY Philharmonic and the Vienna Symphony will be doing their special New Year's Eve concert and they are fun to watch.  One of our friends was actually in Vienna and went to one of those some 20 plus years ago. It was fun so he said. He recounted the following:

Across from the concert hall and over a bit was a real Vienna champagne bar where one went after such concerts. They served chocolates and champagne - by all accounts a dandy combination.  Our friend went to the bar to order and had some musician friends from the event with him. He asked information as in " how much" (wie viele ist es) but his German was nicht gut and the bartender said "viel??" and our friend thought he said vier (as in the number 4 not how much) so our friend gestured to his 2 guests and repeated "vier?" which in the din of the place came out "vier jaja!" or 4 and 3 of us so 12 glasses appeared. Dazed and confused our friend paid the 120$ bar tab and and everyone drowned in cheap champagne.  The only solace was that Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven and Mahler had drunk champagne there on New Year's Eve - records meticulously kept - so that was kinda neat.

A little waltz music

We think that a waltz is something to imagine as much as "do".  Men in their formal evening wear, women in long gowns, champagne, couples swirling about...it is like a fairy tale that we never grow tired of even if we can't waltz worth a lick. A lot of us grew up to the Nutcracker Suite at this time of year and the Waltz of the Flowers was like a bit of that magic.  Some of us owned great big picture books that had snow scenes and glowing windows, horses and sleighs and all kinds of folks on skates on frozen ponds and creeks.  To memories!