rock band superstar!!

saturday evening, my friend sonny had a housewarming/bbq for all of us along with alice. alice and sonny just moved to the same building in streeterville - neither of them knew the other was moving in to the building until they'd already signed lease agreements. alice is on the 43rd floor and sonny is on the 16th. on the 3rd floor they have an amazing roofdeck. it's huge with a bunch of grills and tables set up. so sonny picked up all kinds of things to bbq and we got together to have some fun. john manned the bbq in his lovely pink striped apron, kristen watched b/c she just bought a grill and needs to learn how to use it, and the rest of us enjoyed all the spoils!

some of the group:


on the menu:

beer burgers
hot dogs
brats
ribs
chili lime chicken wings
chicken veggie skewers
chips and salsa
corn (never got cooked)
bbq'd bananas filled with chocolate, marshmallows, and brown sugar. OMG, delicious.
potato salad/pasta salad
and a few other things i may be forgetting

me, ellen, sonny, megan and trish behind us


ellen, megan, sonny, katie


a couple tables FULL of food:


i thought john's face was funny:


katie, kevin, and megan:




plenty of beer and fun was had. in attendance:
megan, katie, trish, john, sonny, alice, silent bob (kevin), trish's two sisters: april & heather, ellen

*silent bob gets his nickname b/c we've met him twice - he works with sonny and is super sweet, but he doesn't say much. we like him... we just like to give him crap! we rode home in a cab together as he lives fairly close and i made him talk to me the whole way*

after our fill of food, we cleaned up and went to sonny's apt for rockband. i'd never played before and was unsure of this whole thing, but pretty soon realized it was a blast. i apparently rocked the microphone b/c everyone kept voting me to be the singer. i have a loud voice and everyone else was quiet and i was willing to sing anything even if i didn't know the words. john thought this was tremendously entertaining and he made me sing some songs that were ridiculously hard and weird. one was timmy from southpark. i can't even begin to tell you about it, bc i think you had to be there. but we were dying laughing. everyone now says they want to go karaoke with me. i dunno about that... rockband with the friends is one thing... singing like a moron in front of a bar is quite another!! so we all took turns playing the drums, guitars, and singing. the drums are ridiculously hard... the guitar is hard... but kinda fun... and the mic, well i loved that...