kukla_red | Mom & Daughter Day

So Sarah and I went out today for a completely indulgent Mom & Daughter day. We really had a great time. I love my daughter - she is an awesome kid. Smart, funny and very mature for her 16 years.

We started the day by driving up to Huntington. For non-locals, Huntington is a very nice town, very chi chi with tons of stores to wander through and restaurants to choose from. We used my new toy, Lilly. That's what we've named my new GPS unit, a Magellan 3100. I didn't really need it to get us there but Lilly showed me a route I had never used before that saved us a ton of time because there was NO traffic. Very cool. We wandered through some stores, found some more Christmas ornaments (50% off!) and eventually ended up at a lovely little tea shop called Teas & 'Tiques. It is a small place with lovely antique furniture, a great menu of sandwiches and sweets and a huge list of available teas. We got the Prince Nicholas Grand Tea for Two and it was wonderful. A 3-tiered tray with finger sandwiches (mmm.... goat cheese with pesto on assagio foccacia bread), scones with clotted cream and jam and a variety of sweets: cream puffs, pumpkin bread (to die for!), brownie bites, etc. We split a big pot of English Breakfast tea to start and then had a small pot of Darjeeling because we wanted more. We were so relaxed after this we wished they had couches somewhere to nap on.

After tea we had to go to my doctor's office - she won't refill my prescriptions if I don't visit periodically, but that didn't take long. From there we went to our favorite nail salon and we got pampered and waxed and buffed and polished.

Sarah took some pictures of us having tea but she had to run out to go to her dad's for the weekend so I don't have them. I will update this entry when she comes back on Sunday.

A very nice day. I'm going to take David to dinner tonight to finish it out right.

I hope you all had a great day too. I love time off from work!!