On Sunday I went to a BBQ at Bicentennial Park, as part of the Sydney Olympic Park area, out at Homebush. I've never actually been to the park before, and from what I saw of it at the BBQ and driving through it, it seems quite nice, only if the ground wasn't so particularly soggy and poor in drainage. It has a lake, and is also near some mangrove swamps (where I have lost an arrow in before after putting one clear over the target at 90m lol) and it is located between a major arterial road (Homebush Bay Road) and the water of Homebush Bay itself.
I got there early from home by car after I stopped off to buy some salads for the BBQ. At this point, I got there just about 9:30am. BBQ's are generally "lunch" and "dinner" things, but out of the eight BBQ spots available (free electric BBQ's), 6 of them had already been taken. That early in the morning. A block of four had been taken by a gentleman who said that there would be a group of fifty people taking it for a youth organisation group, while when I shifted to another spot, there was two women who had staked it out already. Even more so was that one of the women, a Korean lady, started cooking not long after.
She ended up cooking an insane amount of food, and it wasn't until later when a tour bus turned up and disengorged its contents of Korean tourists that we realised she had been in fact making their lunch, thus the sheer volume of food.
So, we got our stuff out (the organiser got dropped off by their dad with all the food and drinks) and then people came progressively from the train station or carparks as they came. We cooked up a lot of food, which while we had 24 people, we didn't even eat it all.... There was also uncooked food also that was taken home...
We had cricket, baseball, soccer, badminton and kite flying as entertainment. Talking, lazing in the sun. The usual BBQ thing.
It was a nice day, and we finished off by feeding the left over bread to the fish in the lake that had been built there. The fish and eels in that place are HUGE, probably from all the people that feed them......
I got there early from home by car after I stopped off to buy some salads for the BBQ. At this point, I got there just about 9:30am. BBQ's are generally "lunch" and "dinner" things, but out of the eight BBQ spots available (free electric BBQ's), 6 of them had already been taken. That early in the morning. A block of four had been taken by a gentleman who said that there would be a group of fifty people taking it for a youth organisation group, while when I shifted to another spot, there was two women who had staked it out already. Even more so was that one of the women, a Korean lady, started cooking not long after.
She ended up cooking an insane amount of food, and it wasn't until later when a tour bus turned up and disengorged its contents of Korean tourists that we realised she had been in fact making their lunch, thus the sheer volume of food.
So, we got our stuff out (the organiser got dropped off by their dad with all the food and drinks) and then people came progressively from the train station or carparks as they came. We cooked up a lot of food, which while we had 24 people, we didn't even eat it all.... There was also uncooked food also that was taken home...
We had cricket, baseball, soccer, badminton and kite flying as entertainment. Talking, lazing in the sun. The usual BBQ thing.
It was a nice day, and we finished off by feeding the left over bread to the fish in the lake that had been built there. The fish and eels in that place are HUGE, probably from all the people that feed them......
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