Barbecue Season Begins!

The First Semi-Weekly Beach Party-Gras was launched last night at Marinest. My credibility was severely challenged by the Auchan customer service when I had to convince them to bring briquets back out after they've launched their Christmas campaign, but in the end the only things I forgot were marshmallows and cups. At least we're close enough to share a couple mugs.

The barbecue proved surprisingly roomy and the weather was very mild. Thanks to Thomas, Kieran, Seun, Wanjin and Dave for providing logistics support and entertainment. The best entertainment, though, was tales of how people managed to find their way to my door - one involved several layers of translation, another successfully used a compass to follow my map! Sorry no pics this time!

A leisurely cruise down the Ill is in the offing for tomorrow. My crew will arrive at 10AM to swab the decks. The crew cut will be a picnic at anchor somewhere upstream. Then we can drop in on ISU by water... for more project work.

Tonight we're just wrapping up an ISU bbq (salmon-burgers for the veggies) and running SW epV (Empire - my favourite). Hope I don't sleep in and miss my own launch in the morning :-)