Katie´s Balneario BBQ Bash

Katie Strass, my sitemate, turned 27 on March 5th. To celebrate she invited a ton of volunteers to Santa Barbara and planned a Balneario BBQ Bash (Balneario means swimming pool). The days leading up to the party were scorching hot, Katie and I got sun burns just from going grocery shopping, so we thought that it would be a perfect time to cool off in a pool. Well, when we woke up the morning of the party it was cold and rainy. We considered going to the pool anyway, but in the end decided to stay and have the party in the apartments, which was just fine and made it a lot easier to heat everything up. About 9 volunteers showed up and all crashed on our floors. Katie prepared an incredible spread, including hamburgers, pinwheels (bacon & steak wrapped up), veggie kabobs, corn bread, potato salad, baked beans, macaroni & cheese, watermelon, jello, lemon squares, apple pie, pecan pie and birthday cake! We ate all day and were stuffed and thoroughly satisfied.

Luke grilling (I enjoyed the veggie kabobs)

Above from left: Allison, Nick, Molly, Katie, Neil (it seemed like a good idea, but then we partly broke the hammock).

Below: a stomach ache