Blooming Tea Ball as it opens and flowers
Yesterday I got together with a friend, an annual event where the two of us go out to lunch and celebrate our birthdays. Mine is in January and hers is in February and we almost always do it sometime after the event. Lately we have been visiting Tea Rooms for our lunch date, seems like the 'girly' thing to do.
This year's tea room choice had Blooming Tea Balls on the menu. It intrigued both of us when we read about it and decided that we definitely had to try this. It takes about five minutes for the selected dried up tea ball to bloom in the pot before you. It really is intriguing, the tea itself was a mild Jasmine, but good and not over-powering. We chose not to have a flavor added.
Women usually have no problem talking when they get together and since we had not seen each other for about five months, talk was not in short supply. In fact we met an hour before lunch just to catch up and then ended up talking for about four more hours after lunch. We could have easy introduced wine into the mix and made a night of it, but we didn't. It's fun to have things to look forward to, we are already thinking about where we will go for next year's birthday chat.
I liked that. It's as if we went with you.
ReplyDeleteThank you Keith......
ReplyDeleteLooks like a perfect place for an afternoon with an old friend! Have to check into it...interesting.
ReplyDeleteYou know Mare there was a wonderful side story with the place as well. Owned by a gal and helped by her sister and 80 year old Mom who makes soups and sweets. The owner, use to run a coffee shop in the south, was married to an abusive alcoholic and had to leave to stay safe from harm. She started the tea room five years ago ... another survivor. Really a neat gal.
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