It´s Official

I went to a real live tea party today!

We had plans to go to a soccer game tonight and everyone was super excited because, as you all know, soccer is huge in South America. In my preparation for the soccer night, I looked like a slob. I put on my Braves t-shirt that Ronnie so kindly gave me for Christmas and threw my hair up (oh wait, I do that every day...) before heading off to my afternoon shift. I had the hospital this afternoon with my baby and it ends one hour after everything else, so we were planning on having the van pick me up on the way to the game. I was prepared.

As I jumped into the van and greeted everyone, I was shocked to see that everyone had put makeup on and were wearing their nicest jeans. They all looked around nervously for who was going to break the news to me. Finally someone piped up that they Angel had ¨forgotten¨ to tell us that we were invited to tea tonight with some super rich ladies who are benefactors of one of our orphanages, so we were going there instead of to the game. Okay, fair enough.

Turns out that we did indeed have tea with the richest 5 ladies in Ecuador with a super nice mansion. I felt so out of place and extremely awkward because of my get-up. And who knew that when they said we were going to tea, they meant that we were really going to tea? I mean, who does that? This tea party was complete with a china set, crumpets, little sandwiches, and some really nasty tea that one of the ladies had kindly made from a tree in her kitchen. When the lady walked by with the teapot after our first round and asked who wanted more, we all sat there in awkward silence, so I took one for the team and volunteered to have a second cup. The entire thing was hysterical for all of us because we didn´t stop fighting over who had to drink whose tea and who had to finish off the sandwiches (the winner ate seven) and who had the most sugar in their tea (pretty sure I won that one).

Gonna cross that one off my to-do list. yay.

oh...ps...yes thats a sunburn.