Joining the A-Team and getting a Romanian twin

My climb up the restaurant ladder continues and I am now finally settled in as a regular barman with Smugglers. It seems once they had me in position at the bar they enjoyed my presence there and decided to cut all of my kitchen and floor shifts altogether. Good news! I'm mixing shandy's and dry wine spritzers for the locals and visitors who happen to stumble into our pub, alongside the young soon to be assitant manager Paul Todd. We've been doing really well at the bar, our boss has even dubbed Paul, Nicole and I "the A-Team" and we tend the bar almost every night of the week. My first few nights on bar I had a perfect score, meaning I had 5 drinks bought for me by customers out of 5 nights, it was pretty cool. Mmmm, properlly poured Guinness. After work we usually sit down for a little while after closing the bar, while we wait for the money to be counted before we go home. Here's a couple of photos of us post-work, tired and sweaty. The one on the right is of Paul and I with Dan, a crazy man who can quote futurama and simpsons almost on par with us. He's most well known at the pub for having accidentally locked a visiting senior member of the organization in the cellar during a routine visit. Crazy man

Just to finish off, we had a day off last week (me, the aussie girls and Dinu who is a head chef as well as the winner of the Romanian version of American Idol - no seriously, he is). We decided to have a bbq in our backyard and relax together. Dinu being head chef, put on his shorts and polo and did most of the bbq-ing. I decided to dress like him and help him out so lo-and behold, the Romanian twins were born. Granted, he did do most of the food work and made some fantastic peppers with vinegar on the grill, I still think I did a great job of supervising.

Here's a final photo of our feast which we had outside, just as it was getting dark. Nicole, Courtney, Dinu and Dzido at 26 Wesley St. More BBQ's to come soon!