The story of the BBQ (grill)

Firstly it was ordered over the internet from Florida as it was 33% off. Then the website would not accept an Australian billing address for our Australian visa card and of course the bank won't accept anything else. So I had a long phone conversation with the company to sort that out. They said they would email within 24 hours to confirm the order.

Two days later I hadn't heard, so I phoned again. They had the order, but had to phone back. An hour later they phoned back and had to take all my details again.

The next day I got an email from UPS (courier) that they had a 140 pound shipment in the system for us. We knew that would have to be the BBQ. We tracked it for 5 days through UPS which has a great scanning system so you can see it at every terminal on its way. We then saw that it was out for delivery at 7am Tuesday morning. At 11am there was an email from the BBQ company that the order had been shipped by them. The email was dated 5 days before!

So finally, we had the 64kg package that made the poor UPS guy ask, "What did you order?"

While I was out at the humane society, Llew started putting it together.

The beasty out of its box.

The legs together.

Um, how does this work?

Getting there...

Ta da!

After a final bolt tighten, we got it out of the living room to where it belongs.

I went and bought all the accessories and fuel and now it is ready for use.

Now we just need some more weather like yesterday. It was 76F (24.4C) and sunny. Today was rainy, windy and only 63F. We needed a jacket and the ground was mushy: not BBQing weather. Llew wants to make sausages on Saturday. We'll let you know how that goes.