Sami's Birthday - Observed

Yes, Sami's Official Birthday was April 19th. However, it was inconveniently timed, so like a president Sami's birthday got moved around the calendar to Friday the 20th. We decided to have a barbecue at home and show off our house and backyard now that the weather is getting nicer.

Sunday the 21st was Sami's friend Edris' bithday, so we decided to make it a double celebration. Sami ordered the rhubarb pie shown in the previous post and Edris requested tiramisu. Neither Sami or I had ever made tiramisu before so it was kind of scary. I didn't think lady fingers were supposed to be so hard, they were crumbling everywhere. Anyway, Sami did most of the work for the tiramisu, I just brushed coffee on the lady fingers and put them in layers.

Everyone said the tiramisu was good. Both the rhubarb pies we made and most of the tiramisu was gone.

Sami rolled out the ground beef with a rolling pin and made uniformly round burgers, perfectly sized for the buns. Unfortunately, burgers shrink when they get grilled, so there was a bit of a "where's the beef?" moment.

Anyway, there was a good group of people, some friends from my work with at the library and Sami's usual group from Intel. Edris had requested a "competition", but wasn't specific. I set up the badminton/volleyball net in the yard, but it got dark soon after everyone arrived so we didn't end up playing. We all had a good time and we're looking forward to more get-togethers this summer.