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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | Good afternoon to all my O buddies who are looking ahead to the holidays and wondering what on earth to get that very special SWMBO.
Two of my girlfriends and I went to tea at a tea room yesterday; check on-line for a tea room in your area, and for about $50 you can treat your sweetie and one of her girlfriends to "high tea." (Other areas of the country may be less expensive than the east coast--YMMV.)
Just think of it: White lace tableclothes, fine china tea cups with those ridiculously small handles, delicate little sandwiches that would leave any manly man nearly half-starved--and you won't even have to go (unless you really want to......) :D
She will greatly appreciate your sensitive generosity, and I won't even ask you for a finder's fee. ;)
Just looking at this through feminine eyes, I would have been thrilled to find a gift certificate for something like this in my stocking.
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Great idea! When my bride and her sisters formally get together, it's usually at a tea room. They always have a grand time.
Now, where's that local natural juice bar...? ;) |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | I would never have thought of that. I wonder if they have tea rooms in Boise. |
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Location: East Wenatchee, WA | Mark,
All you need to do is drive up to Victoria BC and surprise your bride with high tea at the Queen Victoria Hotel. |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Mark.. not sure if it's much of a haul from you to Vancouver, but Lions Gate Park has a rather famous tea room also... and you don't need a Ferry to get there. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | A 12 hour drive for tea is a bit much. |
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| But being American do any of these places actually know how to make tea? |
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Mark, 12 hours up plus 12 hours back, that's 24 hours you've got to golf or somethin'. ;) |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by schroeder:
actually know how to make tea? Doesn't matter. It's an ambiance 'head game'! (Not that there is anything wrong with that.) ;) |
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Location: Hot Springs, S.D. | Great idea! The chamber group I used to play with did gigs in a tea room. One time, the people were on a train tour through the northeast, and stopped at all the tea rooms on the way. The food was great, the tea was great, and then they did a fashion show using old dresses and hats from the 1800's. Not something you guys would enjoy, I'm sure, but a great gift for your wives. |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | Mark, there are--just Google "Tea rooms Boise Idaho."
--Karen |
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Location: CA | So do you break the news to her that you've bought a new Adamas DURING the tea room visit, or after? |
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | We've done (taken?) high tea at the Empress Hotel in Victoria B.C. and numerous places in Great Britain, plus numerous not-so-high teas in the afternoon at strangers' houses along the road. SWMBO loved it. As Karen suggests, however, a 1" triangular cucumber sandwich has little or no effect in diminishing a typical man's appetite at 4:00 p.m. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Cherrio ... indeed, splendid idea, high tea, harumph, harumph. |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Karen, I tried Googling yesterday. Of the three, only the one in nearby Meridian sounded like a traditional tea room and I'm going to look into that. We have a significant Chinese heritage here, going back to the railroad and mining days, so people tend to think of tea rooms in that context. |
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Way OT: Gift Idea for your SWMBO
