My last weekend in Cali featured karaoke at Sodini's, followed by a bbq on Sunday. The Friday night karaoke was great - Rishi and I did a pretty good rendition of "Under Pressure" with him being David Bowie and me being Freddie Mercury. Also did some Waterloo-themed songs, total eclipse of the heart, and that Men at Work song with the Aussie contingent. We were all drinking the Sodini bars own brew, and were all completely wrecked on Saturday.
Sunday was the bbq. It was a gorgeous sunny day, and we sat out chatting in the sun for hours. Played about an hour of road hockey, until it got too dark and the last goal won. The neighbours came by, the Aussies, work friends, Stanford friends - just another one of those perfect Cali days with good times and good food and good people. One of the features of the day was a pie contest. They were all amazing, so we didn't actually get a winner. Check them out!
The flaming pie is the one I made - the "Pregnant, miserable, self-pitying loser pie" from the movie "Waitress". Emma made an amazing chocolate silk pie that disappeared quickly, Mary made a delicious cottage pie (the only savoury one), there were a couple lemon and apple pies, an apfelkuchen, and Sarah E made a teal lemon meringue that "just wanted to be blue, so it was". She won best pie idea - instead of the meringue, she wanted to make a four-and-twenty blackbirds pie, complete with actual live birds, but didn't quite have the time to pull it off. Next time!
So it was a very good send-off. But was it the last weekend?!???!?!? Stay tuned!
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