Every so often I get it in my head that I want to do something and then drag my friends along to do it with me. For example, I will have a party surrounding the Kentucky Derby or decide that I really really need to shoot a gun. This time, I decided that I wanted to have girlie English tea in San Francisco. So last Saturday, Marcia, Krista, and I met up with Stephanie at the Secret Garden Tea House in San Francisco for just that.

I am not really a girlie-girl, but if you’re going to do it, do it. Therefore, I wore my pink dress and Krista did my make-up and I ordered vanilla tea. We ate tiny sandwiches and scones with Devon cream. I liked the curried egg sandwich the best.

Krista gazes at our bountiful tea tray

Apparently having tea can bring even reserved San Franciscans together, because all the other patrons of the the Secret Garden were friendly and cordial. We had a lot of fun watching two little girls play with the frou-frou hats and dance around and wave plastic wands at each other.

The mother holding one of the girls

All and all, it was a great experience. Afterwards, Marcia mentioned how pleasant San Francisco is when you have someone drop you off and pick you up like Kyle and Troy did for our tea outing. I concur. I might even live there if I had a driver to drop me off and deal with parking.

Hooray for occasional girlieness!

LtoR: Me, Marcia, Krista, and Stephanie

Oh, and check out Stephanie’s pictures of our tea here.