Broad Audit

Today I audit the Painted Lady Tea Room’s GIFT SHOP. Fruitiest audit on record.

I’ve liked hot tea for a while, but recently been wanting to step it up and brew loose tea, and possibly even display tea (like in Marie Antoinette). Saturday Mike (not Lawson) took me on a hunt for loose tea. After a few failed attempts we ended up at the Painted Lady on the advice of his friend. Apparently it was Special Hat Day, and I was so relieved that we only had to go to the gift shop upstairs. Fancy hat people are intimidating! I couldn’t take any pictures inside because it was all hot and balmy and small and full of teddy bears dressed in clothes. The gift shop was occupied by ladies fanning themselves as well as a woman I mistook for a mannequin. I loved it! I want to go back for lunch, or afternoon tea even! We bought two kinds of tea, Apricot and Darjeeling Gold Tipped black tea (i think that’s what it was called). The apricot smelled good, but they both tasted pretty much the same. I probably don’t have a sophisticated palette, YET.