All of the ladies met at my house to carpool. We usually go to tea locally, in the D.C. area, but this was a special treat. We've been so cooped up lately it was great to bust out of town.
The tea house was so cute ~ "darling," actually.
There's my Mama Kay arriving in style, as usual :o)
Lynn was saving us a large table, we were going to need it!
Is this place not so stinkin cute? No wonder it's voted Virginia's #1 tea house. I can't wait for my niece Madison to visit me, we are definitely coming back here. She and I love to go to tea together ~ She's 6 & I'm training her well. :o)
That reminds me to post some pictures of the tea that Madison, Shelby and I went to at the Four Seasons hotel this past summer.....I'll have to get on that. I carry that experience with my girls very close to my heart.
There was a room full of hats, gloves and scarves to wear. It really got us in the mood. This pic of me is, unfortunately, a bit blurry. But that's OK...it somehow makes me look better in the hat. (I NEVER, EVER, EVER wear hats). So get a good look now because you won't see this again for, well.....NEVER.
Mama Kay wanted to try it on, it matched her sweater. She looks so pretty!
Don't I look like The Cat in the Hat? "I do not like green eggs and ham, I do not like them Sam I am!" I started to think we were in an old black and white movie or in an old time saloon. We had so much fun playing dress up!
Mama Kay.
It took awhile, but eventually everyone found a hat to match their personality. Pam looking mighty fine!
I think a black hat with lots of pink feathers is TOTALLY me, don't you think? Pam needs to switch back to the blue one. It was screaming her name.
It was a dreamy trip to the past. Out of nowhere I saw Scarlett O'Hara, and she was in quite a tizzy ~ "Oh, Rhett! Please, don't go! You can't leave me! Please! I'll never forgive you!" ....Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
I was instantly transported to the set of Moulin Rouge. I felt like a middle aged,
Bread pudding, truffles, cakes....the dessert with the cherry on top ~ it is filled in a little cup made out of chocolate. So cute.
I would like to go on record and tell you that this entire upper tier of "sweets" I boxed up and took home to my sweetheart. Sweets for my sweetheart....awww....
But not this. I ate every crumb of it and I licked the bowl of my tomato bisque soup. I've always been dainty like that.
And not this either. I ate every last crumb also. Sorry, Johnny. I love you. But not this much. Please don't ever make me choose between you and goat cheese puffs. Or bruchetta. Or tiny cucumber cream cheese sandwiches. It would be a very painful experience for both of us.
We sassy saloon girls are nothing but trouble! "Candy is dandy, but liquer is quicker!" I don't know why I say these things sometimes.
Pam was wearing Jack's hand made icicle earrings! She looked so cute :o)
The Burke/Springfield Navy Wives Club ~ well, about 1/3 of us.
After our tea, we did what we do best ~ SHOPPING!!
The tea house had quite an impressive private collection of tea pots & accessories. It put my little collection to shame, big time.
The store sold such cute girly-girl things. I wanted to take one of everything home.
But I didn't. I used extreme will power. The fact that we just bought a 3 million dollar snow blower was still in the back of my mind. Thanks, Johnny. Because of you we won't have one of those pretty lantern thingys in our kitchen {{sniffle}} Please don't start dancing.
But I did find one small thing to add to our kitchen. It pegged my cute meter.
These are the sweetest little measuring spoons EVER! Here's the front of them.
They are the same ones that Paula Dean uses in her kitchen. Here's the back of them.
And now they'll hang in my kitchen, too! I'm throwing away my ugly plastic ones right now. So there. Amen.
PINKADILLY TEA HOUSE
It was another fun day out on the town with some of my girlfriends & I'd say a perfect place to come have tea any time of the year. I can't wait to come back with Miss Madison XOXOXO
Of course I had to make a scrap book picture for my album ~
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On a different note, Josh has lost 5 pounds!! Yay! So he's that much closer to getting his Marine Corps waiver.
Also, we made over $2,000 on the Chinese New Year auction! Way to go, girls! Every bit helps when we go to award scholarships this coming May.
Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend! I'll see you next week ~ on Monday I have Book Club, has it been a month already?! I'm going to relax and at least go see a movie with my hunny and hopefully hit the gym with Josh.
Johnny is still praying for snow, haha, but I don't think God thinks that's in our best interest right now....or for the next 2 years. I even stopped the snow on our blog just to tease him, haha!
1 comment:
Thanks for this great review on pinkadilly tea, i am going to go there soon.
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