English Rose Tea Room

Today was my oldest daughter's 10th birthday.  It was also the day I chose to do Date #1 from our Secret Keeper Girl "8 Great Dates" book.  Date #1 was attending a formal tea.  The last formal tea that we did together was five years ago at the Empress Hotel in Victoria, B.C. with my mom.  It so happened that my mom and dad are in town visiting us this week, so I asked my mom to join us again.  We went to the English Rose Tea Room in Carefree.

I like Carefree.  A lot.  It's quaint.  When we drove into the village shopping center where the English Rose Tea Room was located, I knew it was going to be something special.  It sat just a few storerooms down from the corner of "Easy Street" and "Ho Hum Road".  That tickled my funny bone enough to make me giggle.  The front of the tea room looked like something out of a Fancy Nancy story. 

On the web site, it says "reservations recommended".  I could see why!  The place was packed with groups of women and young girls, each enjoying a truly unique experience.  The menu offerings seemed like authentic English tea time delicacies.  Definitely not your standard Denny's meal.  The food was delicious.

Not my favorite picture of me by any stretch of the imagination...but today is a memory I think that my mom, my daughter and I will all cherish, and a picture of the three of us together (since my mom is an even bigger picture-phobe than I am) is truly a treasure.  Plus, you can see the food and the inside of the tea room.

They made the luncheon even more special for my Erica by bringing her a candle in her (well, I can't remember the fancy French name for it) chocolate cake.

For women looking for a fun, different outing with friends or with daughters, for moms looking for a unique birthday party for a girly-girl daughter...the English Rose Tea Room was exceptional.