With the perfect San Diego weather helping out, we hosted a neighborhood BBQ at our house. We attempted a classic "All American" meal, with hamburgers, baked bean, potato salad, corn on the cob, corn bread, beer, and more. (dang: I forgot to put out the potato salad!)
After our dinner, we proceeded to walk next door to Wayne and Gunde's for dessert and a great view of the Vista fireworks.
Although we had a few new and/or different neighbors this year, we basically did the same combo party as last year.
This time it was a bit of a neighborhood reunion of sorts: just in the past week Wayne and Gunde had returned from a 7 week RV trip to Alaska, Gary returned from 2 months in Germany (his wife Karin is still there), Pattie and Charlie have been back from a 4 week RV trip up to Oregon just a couple of days, and Rick and I have been back from our Michigan trip less than a week!
Gunde outdid herself again with the desserts:
Although it wasn't cold, we got Wayne to crank on the their firepit! (IT by the way, is gas, and therefore no fire sparks. Open fires are not legal around here for obvious reasons).
It occurred to me afterwards that only two of us women were born in the USA! Gunde and Karin are from Germany, Suzanne is from Denmark, and Julie is Hungarian (I think!)
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Happy Birthday Jeff!
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