i’m back from Los Angeles, Riverside area to be more exact, where I attended Gina and Jonathan’s wedding over the weekend. helen was the maid of honour, and we arrived a few days earlier. we were very lucky to stay at a retreat center at Lake Elsinore, which is around 45 minutes south of Riverside.
the deck outside our bedroom:
we organized a high tea for gina and her out-of-town girlfriends, and found a wonderful tea house in rancho cucamonga where we were served more food and tea than we could eat and drink. we tried the raspberry-vanilla-almond, lady grey with vanilla, peaches-and-cream, black currant, chocolate-?-chai… there were so many, i can’t remember all the flavours anymore.
barbara, helen, me, gina, christina, and sherrin:
delicious!
we presented gina with a journal containing letters from many of her friends who couldn’t make it to california for the wedding. she loved it!
the rest of the day was spent shopping and preparing some spa treament for gina in her apartment… candles, massage, aromatherapy, and soothing music. very relaxing.
a beautiful sunset seen from riverside:
