Afternoon Tea at Church

Today was exactly what I needed, afternoon tea at church with the ladies. I didn't know if I'd know anyone there but I went anyway. What better way to get to know strangers, right?

I chose to sit at a table with women close to my age - there's very few of those up here. Usually, they're born here, move to Phoenix for their "productive years" then move back up here to retire, maybe becoming a snowbird and maintaining a condo in the Valley.

Anyway, I chose an Island Mango type of tea for my meal. The food was presented well and tasted pretty good. There were scones, small sandwiches, and some phyllo cups with veggies. The Chicken Tortilla soup was very good, too. I'm going to get a copy of the recipe at church tomorrow from one of the guests.

Dessert was a little dish with 4 small tea desserts. They were pretty good too. I chose a Vanilla Caramel Truffle tea for that.

The nice part was really the conversation, getting to know the ladies at our new church. They're mostly in their 60s and up, but there's a few younger that I can fit in with, and all the ladies are so nice. We had a time of focusing on Christmas with little prizes to fill up a bag of reminders of the season. Our table hostess Erica was nice enough to buy everyone at our table a little fall scented candle too. I even met a woman who approached me to say she too was a Monavie distributor and one of her customers saw the sticker on our van and told her about me. Maybe she'll tie in with some of us and we'll get our local business growing like our distance group.

Tomorrow at church, I'll have new familiar faces (still bad with names when they're all so similar: white, white curly short hairdo's, glasses, and shaped about the same, same height, and most with blue eyes). I think this new church will be great for us - not too big that we can't meet everyone, not so small that there's nothing going on to fellowship outside of service. I'm interested in what their Christmas services will look like!