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More of Marion’s 70th Birthday celebrations! We met up with my nieces Julie and Wendy and went to London to see the show “Sunny Afternoon“, the story of the Kinks. It was very good.
This was followed by a drink at the
Back Room at the Hard Rock Cafe, we knew it was near by but the sat navs kept moving!
It shows how long it is since I did a London visit, I didn’t know you can use your contactless bank cards the same as an Oyster card! Wendy who often works in London told Julie and I to “keep up with technology”. Julie was the same as me, far better to buy a ticket than not know what is coming out of your bank! So each time our cards were scanned Julie and I were joking “another £50”. And Julie is a lot younger than me at only 44!
Then we went for Marion’s birthday treat meal at Four Seasons Hotel in Park Lane. Very swish. Well, I don’t think we have laughed so much for a long time. We were seated at the table and we all put our handbags on the floor by the side of us. The waiters immediately came with 4 leather “fishing stools” and placed our handbags on them!! We have had hooks for handbags before but not a stool! They brought the menu and took our drinks orders and yes, they gave us tap water too! It’s my thing that where ever I go I ask for tap water (except in Cyprus). We didn’t have to ask for it in here.
The service was excellent as you would expect and although very professional, I think the waiters liked that we were enjoying ourselves. The other diners were obviously very moneyed and as miserable as sin! We had 5 courses with tasters as well and of course everything was perfect. They didn’t rush us and they didn’t hover so it was really enjoyable. We were there for three hours.
We started the giggles again when our desserts came in miniature goldfish bowls! So we had a pre dessert and a dessert, well, I had to eat them, would have been rude not to 😉 . Slimming World is Monday evening, will have to go easy until then BUT I won’t stop celebrations that come into my life for SW and I can’t stand picky eaters, I am not.
At the end of the meal they brought out a Happy birthday candle and plate with macaroons and other sweets for Marion’s birthday. That was very nice.
By this time we were seriously all full. Wendy said it would be nice to take the sweet things back for the kids. I did no more than produced a zip lock bag from my handbag, well, that started the three of them laughing again, why I had them in my bag. Easy, when we eat out, any meat left over goes home to Ellie! I scooped them into the bag and when we left we walked out with them.
But before we left, we had to check out the ladies. It reminded me of the Merit Park Hotel in Cyprus but they have real cloth hand towels at the Merit. They were high quality paper ones here with a huge bottle of hand cream. We were talking about taking a photo when an extremely well dressed American lady came in and offered to take a photo of us….she must think “mad Brits”. So here we are posing in the Ladies!!
A good day out, a lot of laughs and hopefully good memories for Marion.
Thought for the Day – “We didn’t know we were making memories, we just knew we were having fun.”
