Relaxing on the beach with family and friends? Generally taking it easy?
Jeremy (Bis) Bisson, events manager at Wanaka Wastebusters, and his events recycling crew spent it picking up other people's rubbish at the Rhythm and Alps music festival.
It's mucky, physical work, but dealing with waste is one of the necessary parts of putting on an event.
The more people, the longer the event, the more rubbish, recycling and organic waste there is to deal with.
Bis, who has been organising recycling for events for the past eight years, says the keys to keeping events clean are preparation and culture.
''Rhythm and Alps found that out the hard way last year,'' he says.
''There were some pretty unsavoury sights when everyone had left. Let's just say that you wouldn't want your children on the clean-up crew.
''This year the organisers put in a real effort in to create a tidier culture and it really paid off. They talked a lot before and during the festival about taking your tents home, and keeping it clean. Festival-goers got on board and didn't leave all their mess behind for us to clean up, instead they helped us before they left. And let's face it, almost no-one wants to party in a pig-sty.''
Because so many people gather together in one place, events can create a lot of waste.
When you can buy a tent for $30, many festival-goers treat it as a disposable commodity and plan to leave it behind.
The same goes for sleeping bags, chairs and air mattresses.
And if everything you've brought is disposable, there's no reason to look after any of it.
Add in copious amounts of alcohol, and the temptation is there to trash and destroy.
To help fight the temptation, Rhythm and Alps, working with GreenShoot Pacific consultants Amanda Wright and Dave Watson, encouraged festival-goers to be part of the Love your Tent programme.
Love your Tent started in the UK, which has been dealing with festival wastelands of abandoned tents for years.
Festival-goers make a commitment to take their tents with them when they leave.
At Rhythm and Alps their tents were stencilled with a Love your Tents logo, making their commitment public.
The result was fewer abandoned tents at Rhythm and Alps this year, and the clean-up crew was more prepared to deal with them, moving through the crowd and helping festival-goers pack them down and take them to skips.
But you can't really blame the festival-goers for ditching their tents when they're only built to survive a couple of days.
The waste is a side-effect of a system that allows someone to make a profit by selling a cheap, disposable tent.
No-one accounts for the loss of resources and the landfill costs when that tent is thrown out after one weekend.
Asked to nominate one change that would reduce event waste streams the most, Bis pinpoints single-use cups.
''I love what the Splore festival [south of Auckland] has done by introducing a reusable plastic cup. The cups look cool so people want to hang on to them as a memento of the festival, and festival-goers have some skin in the game because they have to pay for them when they buy their first drink. You can get all tied up debating the merits of compostable or recyclable single-use cups, but if you step back and look at the bigger picture, reusable cups are the way to go. Reduce should always come first.''
Splore introduced the reusable cup after sending 55,000 single-use cups to landfill in 2012.
Bis said the improvement in Rhythm and Alps this year was evidence of a commitment from the top management to create a cleaner more enjoyable festival.
''I think they realised that it had to change if they want a long-term future in Wanaka. I really wasn't sure I'd go back to do the recycling after the first one. But I did, and I actually really enjoyed it. Now, I'm keen for next year.''
Gina Dempster is communications officer at Wanaka Wastebusters.
Each week in this column, one of a panel of writers addresses issues of sustainability.
