Tea Time

I went to tea today with my tea ladies at The Pink Bicycle in Occoquan, VA,   http://www.pinkbicycletearoom.com/.  I had a great time with Cindy, Debbie, Elaine, Nancy, Rosemary, and Nancy's daughter, Jennifer.

The tea house is very cute.  They have dozens of different tea cup/pot patterns, pretty painted furniture, and art by local artists is hung on the walls.  We drank pots of jasmine tea, cinnamon tea, their house blend, which was really nice, and a few pots of the white chocolate toffee tea.  The white chocolate toffee tea was delicious.  We all had The Queen's Tea that included either a cup of soup or a salad.  Deb had the salad which had blueberries and pomogranates, and the rest of us had Pumpkin Spice Bisque - YUM YUM YUM!

Then they served us white chocolate scones with strawberry jam and clotted cream (we got a second round of the scones because they were so good) and then they brought out those cute tri-level trays laden with little egg salad sandwiches, ham salad on corn bread rounds, cucumber sandwiches, honey pecan spread on raisin bread, cantalope slices and orange slices and for dessert, banana bread with apple, cinnamon butter, truffles and triple chocolate brownies.  Oh, and the water had sliced cucumber floating in the pitchers - I loved it.  It added such a nice flavor and was such a nice change from lemon and lime slices, which I am not fond of.  I think I am going to try that at Thanksgiving and see if  anyone notices.  We ate every crumb and sloshed out of the tea shop! 

After eating all that delicious food, we wandered through the historic section of Occoquan and visited several shops, did some Christmas shopping, bought some things for ourselves, and had a wonderful time.  There are so many great shops and eateries Occocquan.  They even have a wine shop that sells only Virginia wines.  The had these really great wrought iron wine racks that hung on the wall (and I didn't get a picture of them) but I did get a picture of the adorable wine cork wreath.  What a great incentive to drink a lot of wine and use the corks for a craft project.!