Two Girls, a Guy & Damien: Pool and Barbecue

Yesterday, June 23rd, we had agreed that we would have a barbecue at Damien's house in Ajax. Why? because he has a pool! We had actually wanted to do this barbecue for a while, but it didn't happen until yesterday. I had work until around 2:00 p.m. so Meli came to my work and Damien picked us up. We went then to the supermarket to buy ingredients; steak, chicken, burgers, salmon and some veggies. If you are wondering how many of us were at the barbecue, the answer is three. We would have been four if it wasn't because Os went to a "diaper party"... which honestly it's just a baby shower, but he thought diaper party sounded better (it doesn't). So we get to Damien's house and his mom was there, raiding the fridge to take food up to the cottage. Damien's parents were up north working at a cottage, and they only came back to empty the fridge since it's so inconvenient to get food up there and they were back to get some materials anyway. Damien's mom is really cool and says that Damien was adopted (well she is definitely prettier!). We got to meet Damien's birds as well who were flying all round the place, which got him a bit upset, yet his mom caught them and put them back in the cage really easily (it takes him a lifetime to do it usually).

We had been complaining to Damien about him promising us he would make roti, so his mom very kindly prepared the mix for us to just knead and shape and cook later. Meli and I agreed that he was just waiting for his mom to make it and then take the credit himself.

After we prepped the food to be grilled, we opened up some young coconuts and drank that refreshing juice while sitting with our feet soaking in the pool. Damien called grill master, so Meli and I just relaxed. To start we had some grilled peppers and eggplant and a burger each.

Damien as grill master

We decided to leave the sirloin steaks, salmon and chicken for dinner. After we had our burgers, we decided it was time to prepare the curry chicken for the roti, and so we did... although I got very frustrated at the fact that none of Damien's knives were sharp. I ended up having a hard time even de-boning the chicken... But after an arduous fight with the chicken, everything was done and Damien made the curry, so we had roti with curry chicken in the patio as a snack before we made dinner.

Later on that night, Derek and Gia decided to join us after they went to the Rib Fest in Oakville. We sat at the patio chatting and listening to the radio while we watched Gia failing at opening a wine bottle. We ended the night watching TV and having sirloin steak, grilled salmon and cheese cake. We had to go back inside because the mosquitoes at the patio were feeding on us. Really fun, relaxing and exhausting day I would say!