Ok, today's profile will be a little bit different format. Today, the women of the Cordova family went to have afternoon tea at a little English tea house in Colorado. 'Why' you ask? You got me. My dear Aunt Stephanie decided about 4 or 5 years ago that our family didn't have any Christmas traditions. I personally thought the whole spending christmas together at Grandma's house was the tradition part, but I'm no tradition aficionado so who am I to name them. So since we didn't have a proper family tradition, my aunt went with the most obvious choice...Have the women of the family dress up and attend high tea at an English tea house! Don't ask me. Here's what you need to know about our family though...We're not refined people. We're super loud, and we don't practice etiquette on a regular basis, so you can imagine what 8 or 9 Cordova family women were like at the very first Christmas High Tea. The first one we went to was at the Brown Palace Hotel, which is probably the ritziest hotel in Downtown Denver. It's where the President stays when he comes to Colorado. So 8 or 9 loud, somewhat out of place women at the fanciest hotel in Colorado...recipe for a sitcom? Yeah, welcome to my life. Tea was, of course, spilled; sugar was knocked over; My cousin who was about 8 at the time broke an ornament off one of the fancy lobby trees. And just to demonstrate our family's refinement: The jelly was served in tiny individual jars, so my Grandma asked for extra then proceeded to put them all in her purse, because "That jelly is good stuff, and it's expensive!" The jelly was soon followed by the extra scones wrapped up in a napkin. Yes, this is my family. I should be ashamed, I should be embarassed, but I can't be, it's just too funny. So today was another high tea (different tea house- they blacklisted us at the Brown Palace) my aunt spilled tea again, but it wasn't too bad today. I hope everyone is having a great Christmas Eve! Merry Christmas!!!
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