We were having “shrimp on the Barbee!”

I started the day by going to campus to work on the classroom documentation.  Before I left the apartment I had a call from Debbie Maunder confirming our getting together today.  She wanted to pick me up from campus at 1:30, so we had a deal.

I got a nice amount of work accomplished by 1:30.  Debbie was picking me up to go to her home and meet her family.  AND the most important part . . .

Debbie and her husband, Rod, have a beautiful home an an acre.  The home is built to bring the outside in or at least easy to live outside.  They have one daughter, Kim, who is a stellar student in music.  I got home sometime after 9 pm.  Here are some shots from the evening.

Debbie and I took Kim to a B’day party in another suburb.

We were in a suburb that was old enough to have beautiful trees.

The street looked like a beautiful American suburb.

Debbie and Rod Maunder on their veranda.

A night shot of their pool.

Supper is sirloin steak and shrimp in sweet chili sauce.

How cool to have a ‘barbee’ with Aussies.

Rod is cooking the ‘prawns’ – they couldn’t believe when Crocodile Dundee called them ‘shrimp’ on the barbee because Aussies eat PRAWNS.

The shrimp is cooked with sweet chili sauce – a staple here. It’s the sauce we get with egg rolls in the US.

 

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