HIgh Tea

Today we had our Relief Society Birthday celebration. We had a high tea party. Everyone signed up for a food to bring and were encouraged to wear their fanciest hats and bring their cutest purse. Not many people had fancy hats but there were some pretty fun purses.

There were about 20 sisters in attendance which filled up all the chairs and was about all the room could hold. The room was decorated very festively with green and pink.

There were all kinds of interesting foods and in true high tea fashion, the desserts where at the beginning of the buffet and the sandwiches and vegetable stuff was near the end. There were teas of various kinds as well as fruit juices.

I made a raspberry chocolate torte. (Mindy, don't fall off your chair!) It got rave reviews. Okay, it did start with a cake mix but then it got lots of special attention - thanks to a recipe from Taste of Home Celebrations cookbook. It had a raspberry filling layer and it was suppose to have a ganache layer and then fresh raspberries but I couldn't find fresh raspberries this time of year and the ganasche hadn't cooled enough to whip properly so I ended up just making a fluffy chocolate butter cream frosting.

These are a couple of friends. The one on the left is Mickey. She is the other American in the ward. The lady next to her just got married and moved here from the Philippines. She is getting baptized next Saturday.

This is Armanda. She is an amazing cake decorator and a great lady.

The girl on the right is Lydia. She is our Young Women President.

It was a nice event and everyone seemed to have a good time. We had several investigators and non members attend and although my Spanish and Dutch are pretty limited I did try to at least smile, listen and nod and try to figure out what they said (they kept talking to me so I must have responded appropriately, or else they just thought I was a little crazy.)