Friday Sophie’s best friend, Zoey, turned 2. Wednesday Sophie turns 3. (How did this happen?) To celebrate, Angel and I took the girls to their very first afternoon tea (although tea parties at home have long been an afternoon activity) at The BonBonerie. While I drank “Apricot Afternoon” (Sri Lanka black tea, dried apricot, dried papaya, blackberry and lime leaves calendula and sunflower petals), Sophie drank her favorite—lemonade—from her tea cup. And we all dined on fruit, scones, tiny sandwiches and pastries, and, of course, many, many desserts.
We hope to make it a yearly tradition.
“Another novelty is the tea-party, an extraordinary meal in that, being offered to persons that have already dined well, it supposes neither appetite nor thirst, and has no object but distraction, no basis but delicate enjoyment.” —Jean-Anthelme Brillat-Savarin