A Quick Trip to Zeeland, MI

With the Spring Tea at church behind me, hubby and I made a fast trip to Zeeland last Tuesday to visit our youngest son and family.  Ellie is on the school's tennis team, so shortly after arriving we went to her tennis match.

We ate diner after her match, played a few rounds of UNO and then watched the Detroit Piston's basketball game on TV.

Samantha asked us to bring our power washer so they could power wash their brick patio, so that was the agenda for Wednesday. It tipped over in our car during transit and gasoline got into carburetor so it gave Jerry a challenge to get it started.  

When it finally started, Samantha was the first to begin the power washing.

Then Jeremy took over.  The job turned out to take longer than anticipated, so we left the power washer so they could finish up as their schedules permitted.

They humored me by letting me take a few photos.  

[Jerry and Jeremy]

[Landon and Jeremy]

[Samantha and Izzy]

Izzy finished up at Michigan State so she was home and we got to be with all three grandkids. While we were there Izzy gave me a tutorial on using Instagram, so I'm up and running there again.

I took two tea samples for us to taste while we were there. The musical Hamilton is being performed at the Fisher Theater so The Whitney is doing a special tea to coordinate with the performance on May 16th. Hamilton grew up in the British West Indies, so I asked our tea blender to give me something tropical that would be found in his native land.  She gave me two pineapple tea blends - one with coconut and one without.  We liked the one with coconut best.

I posted the picture below on my Facebook page and got a couple of comments that the cups were coffee cups, not teacups.  It wasn't a tea party.  The cups were simply vessels used to taste the tea.  We weren't focusing on visual aesthetics.  Thought I better explain that here.  ;-)

We left Wednesday evening to head back home because I had to work last Thursday.  Jeremy and Sam opted to stay in Zeeland this Mother's Day, so they gave me my gift before we left - a cute teapot book marker and a gift card to HomeGoods/Marshalls/TJ Maxx.   It will be useful for a couple of items I plan on shopping for.

Thursday wasn't overly busy at The Whitney, but Friday and Saturday made up for it.  105 guests on Friday and 219 guests on Saturday.  All three floors of the mansion were used as well as every room.  The majority of guests were treating moms for Mother's Day but there were a couple of bridal showers.  I took a photo of the sign used for one of the showers.

The ladies were pleased with the favors we passed out at the 'Generations Tea' on Saturday.  I ordered the cups and saucers from Hobby Lobby so it was an easy task.  I won't have to shop for any other favors now until September when we have the Autumn and Apples Tea.

Teatime photo from The Whitney's Facebook page.

When Saturday's work day was over I was glad to come home and put my feet up.  I was thankful my kids were taking me out to dinner on Sunday for Mother's Day... next post.