Brief Summary
Place : Cheswick Park
Location : Henrico, VA
Distance : 0.5 miles from Henrico Hospital.
Group: 15 members.
Duration : 1day
Experience: On 24th evening we have decided to meet and discuss regarding plan for having a barbecue. We discussed couple of options for place like pool in our society, cheswick park and deep run park(little far off from where we stay) and for food we thought of options like barbecue, preparing on gas near pool and ordering from outside. Finally we decided the place to be pool and food will be prepared on the grill and will get backup food and will start around 11:00 am(as soon as the pool opens). So changed the name as well to pool party instead of barbecue. We have come up with list of all the items needed for the arrangement and decided to go next day morning before the pool party starts. On 25th morning around 9:15 am had a call with Hemant(Key person behind the event) and came to know that plan is changed and we are having barbecue at cheswick park. We both first went to Walmart and bought majority of the necessary items, then picked Vaibhav and went to Indian Store, Dollar Tree and Halal to buy the rest. We brought corn hole game as well as an activity to all during the barbecue. I boiled potatoes and then took few chopping boards and knives, picked up Hemant, Amol and Akshay(also brought chopping board and knives) and left for Cheswick park.
It was a bright sunny day. There were not much cars at the parking. We parked the car, collected all the items that we bought in the morning and headed towards our barbecue spot.It was few hundred meters walk from parking to the pot and fully covered with huge trees on both sides protecting from heat. With the shade of the trees and little sunshine all over the place it was a very good climate for having barbecue. We four were the first to reach. We then started preparation of food by chopping necessary items, mixing and marinating them with various masala and sauces. Soon Other members arrived along with their family and kids. There was a big ground near the barbecue spot where the kids were playing and having fun. Soon we were done with food preparation and decided to light up fire and prepare corn. The corn took longer than expected time to get heated. The Corn was ready, applied masala to it and they were very tasty. The nice aroma of the burnt charcoal in the midst of the jungle added to the corn flavour made it delicious.
While corn was getting ready few of us started preparing for the barbecue (sticking all the marinated vegetables to skewers). After corn is completed, we started the veg barbecue. All the vegetables are getting cooked on the barbecue grill very nicely. Soon first round of barbecue was ready and it was superb in taste. And the climate also made us feel very comfortable with nature and enhanced the taste of the food. After two rounds of Veg Barbecue, we had chicken on the grill for those who eat. It also turned out to be very delicious. After finishing with chicken also we started an activity Corn Hole. Made teams, comprising two, among ourselves and those with families one team and others were grouped to form one team. Rohit and Amol won in the game potting highest number of corn bags into the hole. Total three rounds were played and we had lot of fun while playing. We again had veg barbecue on the grill and called the day off. Had a wonderful and memorable time outside with great team and of course had amazing and wonderful food. All our efforts were really successful. All is Well.
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