Carrie had most of the day off, so we actually got to sleep in a little bit! 'Twas nice. We played a game of Mario Kart and watched an on-demand workout thing (though I can't remember in what order we did those). Carrie went to a store meeting around lunchtime and I made myself two cheese quesadillas. Carrie returned a while later with Melissa & Sophie in tow, and also some Chinese beef stuff for me to eat. That's a lotta lunch!
The girls just stopped by on their way to put up PSBF posters wherever they were given permission to do so. Carrie & Sophie then went with Lena to Jefferson Park. She called me and asked if I wanted to go to a barbeque at the Tarbets' house in the evening. Did I!
So eventually Carrie dropped Lena off back at her house and then brought Sophie over to our house where the two of them made fresh-squeezed lemonade and chocolate chip cookies. Then at 6:00 we packed up some salmon and some beer and some soda and the lemonade and cookies and drove the short distance to the Tarbets' house.
We arrived at the same time as Heather & Chris. Let's see if'n I can remember who all was there...
- Me
- Carrie
- Linnea
- Jay
- Lena
- Baby Eva
- Sophie
- Melissa
- Travis
- Christine
- Leilani
- Rick
- And later on a couple of across-the-alley neighbors wandered over as well.
Jay had basically finished construction on the new garage and had demolished the old garage, so now there is a really cool paved area in the backyard next to the new garage where the old garage used to be. He set up their big wood-burning stove-like thing back there near the alley.
If you look to the left in that alley you can see Christine's house just two doors down. It never really struck Christine before just how close her new house is to the Tarbets.
Anyway, there was much barbequeing, all the ladies took turns holding Baby Eva (even Christine, who didn't really want to at first). I had three beers and didn't even feel the slightest bit drunk, probably due to the fact that I had two cheese quesadillas and some Chinese beef in me, plus the salmon, potato salad, pasta salad, and hot dog that I ate during the course of the barbeque.
Chocolate, graham crackers, and marshmallows were produced, and people made s'mores. I did not, because I felt that so much sugar would completely overload me at that point (I haven't been eating very much sugar lately). Carrie left for about an hour to take Sophie home by 9:00, but then she came back, and most of us ended up staying there by the fire until almost 10:30.
And you know what? Except for Carrie's store meeting, none of the day was pre-planned. Let's hear it for impromptu!
