first BBQ of the year

last night - beautiful weather, great spot, BBQs included. what more could you ask for? well, some coal, for starters. my friend had said she had a small grill and stuff to light it, etc., which i took to mean she was bringing the whole thing, which, considering the public BBQs were first come, first served, sounded great. except what she meant was that she had a grilltop, and firestarters. certainly no coal. when her sister and i looked expectantly at her, she said that they made fires when they were out camping in the forest. ah... yes... this was not going to work in the park...

we were lucky, though, in that one of the grills was free and some lovely people gave us some of their coal. feeling terrible about this, we took very little, so it took a while for our meat to cook, but other than that it was just perfect.