Barbecue Nite ...

The weekend came and went faster than I could say 'weekend'! But it was a great weekend indeed. Only regret is that it ended way too soon and here I am again back at work on my most hated day of the week, Monday! Well, at least Chelsea lost ... hahaha!

Anyway, those of you who visits my other blog would definitely know I went for a barbecue over the weekend at my good buddy Adrian's place. We've actually been planning for the barbecue for ages and it finally materialized and we all had such a great time. I know I was stuffed silly from all the eating and drinking ... LOL!

The barbecue was actually in honour of our other good buddy who is finally going to tie the knot with his girlfriend. Adrian and myself have been looking forward to that day for as long as we can remember. And we're pretty happy for him. At least now he can join our ball and chain gang (as my buddy Adrian so nicely put it ... hehehe)

We've all been friends for more than 20 years now and it was fun reminiscing old times (well, we always reminisce old times whenever we meet, so nothing new there ... LOL!) I've never really known anyone else as long as these guys. In fact, we've know each other so much longer than we've known our own wifes!

Well, the barbecue proper started around 7 plus I would say. When I reached my buddy's house around 6 pm he was still busily trying to get the fire started, and there I thought everything would be ready and we could all start eating cos I was already bloody hungry seeing as how I refrained from having my lunch ... LOL!

I asked him what was taking him so long to get the fire started and he said, 'hey buddy, I've been here since 5pm trying to get this started, ok!' Yeah, right buddy ... LOL! I know you were online at that time ... hehehe. And me being my usual pesky self, told him to let me try. And after some effort, I gave up cos I sure ain't good at trying to get the fire going (at least I know I'm not gonna be able to cut it as an arsonist ... LOL!).

There we were struggling away when the guest of honour turned up and when he saw our miserable attempt at getting things going, he gave us this pathetic look and got the fire going ... yay, hour hero, I think not, that bloody show off ... LOL! Well, he did finally get the fire started and the food finally made it to the pit :)

I think the kids were already pretty hungry by then from all the playing they were doing earlier. Adrian had his nephew there and together with my youngest boy, they made quite a racket! Adrian's cute little daughter sat on one of the chairs outside and quietly watched the fun like a little angel :D Oh and she finally called me Uncle Nick that day .... hehehe ...

Once the food started getting cooked, we all had such a great time stuffing ourselves silly. I never realized I could get so stuffed on just sausages, chicken wings, fish (didn't touch the stuff) and pork strips but I was stuffed nonetheless. And we had loads of food leftover. To be honest, I was kinda worried that the food wouldn't be enough for everyone. The night before the barbecue, the wife and me went and bought the chicken wings and stuff and the wings were in low supply (for some strange reason ...) and we just bought whatever was left which was wasn't much to begin with.

The next morning we kinda said that maybe we should get some salad as well just in case the food wouldn't be enough, so we went out again and got some salad stuff and brought that along but in the end, we shouldn't really have worried so much cos the food was plenty enough :D The kids walloped as much sausages as their bellies could fit to the point my elder boy, who eats nothing but sausages (and he happens to love sausages) actually said he couldn't eat anymore ... LOL, which really surprised the wife cos that boy can eat a horse, a camel, a tyrannosaurus and still be hungry!

That was my first barbecue in such a long time that I thoroughly enjoyed myself :) We plan to make this a monthly thing right after our buddy's wedding and I thought that was a great idea. We'd be taking turns to play hosts and hopefully we'll be able to pull it off as a monthly thing.

Sadly the night had to end and we all headed home cos it was also way past the kids bedtime and I had to get up early to send the kids for Sunday School (which I ended up not going ... LOL!) For a different take on the barbecue night, check out my buddy's blog for his posting on it. (hopefully he gets it up soon ... hehehe)