Tea Party

A beautiful tea house opened up in our town a few months ago and though I have had the opportunity to enjoy tea there a few times with friends, today I wanted to share it with K2.
You see, the thing about this tea house is that it is very civilized. One enters to a beautiful decor of deep browns and rich yellows, of high tables and Poe, Keats and Blake lining the bookshelves. One orders from the 50 or so tea leaf varieties housed in glass jars along one wall and is presented with a rather large tea pot of steeped "Lovers Leap", "Red Door" or whatever else your little heart desires. Like honey in your tea? Be prepared to be given a glass cup of fresh honey. See? All very civilized and much more classy than the two glasses of wine with a side of Mike and Ikes we had had for dinner a night ago.
Sadly, the tea room was closed today. I lamented to K2 about how much I wanted to share this with him (he likes tea a great deal) then went upstairs to dry my hair.

When I came downstairs again, this is what I saw:

We enjoyed two cups each of piping hot Orange Pekoe, discussed classy things like who was winning the football game that was playing on the television at the time (hey, a girl can only ask for so much, right?) and whether or not Bear should be allowed to lay across the kitchen table like he was (we like to pretend that we have a say in what Bear does). Okay, so we're not as civilized as we'd like to think, but at least the will is there.

Hope you enjoyed as lovely a Sunday as we did.  Catherine, let me know when you are free for our tea date!  This week is all clear for me!