bbbq (the extra b is for beer!)

this was the most rediculously fun disaster of a bbq ever! we knew the weather wasn't going to be perfect but the whole day had been rain-free and relatively nice. we kept our fingers crossed and at 5:30 i started the grill....

5:50 - downpour. thunderstorm. scary shit. lightning right on top of my head. in trying to protect the grill from the rain i discovered that my ass is so big that it sticks out from under umbrellas. wearing a white dress in the rain is a bad plan, so i changed.

here's me checking on the grill when the rain slowed down. still hot so the burgers went on to cook! (i attempted to make kaitlin burgers by adding the onion, garlic, oregano, parsley, etc, and people seemed to like them. hooray!)


a lot of people drove over because of the rain. brad brought chips and half of a keg from the mcdb happy hour on friday. i have no idea why i'm making such a rediculous face.


and here's the keg. too heavy to carry still, causing jeff to break the handle on the bucket. oops. the keg turned out to be mostly head which was sad. it was sam adams though.


here are rich and jenny who got caught in the downpour and had to borrow clothes from erica and carolyn while their own stuff went into the dryer. a couple of wet rats drowned by hurricane ophelia. kind of ironic isn't it?


jeff, casey, and rich standing in the kitchen. this time casey is making a funny face. so at least i'm not the only one. :P


this is erica's boyfriend jason. he is staying with us for the weekend, but we haven't actually seen erica or jason at all today.


brad thought it would be funny and productive to juggle his ground turkey while making it into burgers. he's just rediculous


this is a silly picture of diana eating. sorry, diana.


alice doesn't like to have her picture taken aparently. and phil didn't notice. yay candid shots!


again with the candid shots and funny faces. alice is still hiding and jeff must be feeling guilty about eating that brownie or something.


this is a cute one of carolyn and diana.


look how sad i am after receiving the text message that the cute (married) austrailian boy sent me saying he couldn't come to the bbbq because of the rain and he had too much work to do. lame!! (also note that i had to change again because my ass got rained on again. i had given up on the cute outfits at this point) (also note that i toasted marshmallows over our gas stove to make smores. they were still tasty!)


and we all had some hot apple pie shots. yum yum!!


i like playing bartender.


we all watched robin williams live on broadway, which is still hilarious. and there was much discussion of movies and their relative goodness/badness. good times were had by all. after the movie, most people left and carolyn, erica, jason, diana, brad, and i went out to the gpscy and bar. note that i was still wearing pajamas. so comfy. but it was funny walking around downtown new haven passing all the bars and clubs that wouldn't let me in dressed like a slob. i got some good drinks (they are cheap at gpscy, hooray!!). i talked to brad about music. then i talked to carolyn, diana, and brad about sex while erica was drunk on jason. then we all went home and went to bed. or at least tried to go to bed. i didn't get to go to bed until 4am because gerrit called and i have rediculous insomnia. how it's possible to go from mono to insomnia i don't quite understand. but whatever.

i was up this morning at 8:30, i went for a biking adventure, went on a walk to collect chinese take-out menus, and made delicious pizza with steak and mushrooms on it.

hooray for bbbqs, pizza, and fluffies! poo on the rain!