SummerGarden:Bridal Shower(Part 2)

* From the top: Facade of Summer Garden, Interior, Menu, Bar area

Lunch reservations were made at Summer Garden. I have not been here before and had not heard about this place. From my first impressions of the place, it looks good and has great ambience for dining or drinks with family & friends.

4 of us ordered set lunch which came with soup and dessert. Right before serving us, the waiter asked if we would like our soup hot or chilled. Since we had not had cold soup before we decided to all give it a shot. However after having a few spoonfuls of it, EuniceO and I decided to hand it back to the waiter for warming up. I guess the two of us are really ‘Chinese’ to the bone. No cold soups!

Now, the girls still had a few tricks up their sleeves. I’m not sure if the other girls were in it or not but Mace definitely had puffed up sleeves! I should have seen it coming though. Especially since I have had experience with her coordinating my past birthdays :)

So to keep the story going, the girls gifted me with La Senza. It was nothing terribly scandalous, just sweet and brown. Thank you, thank you girls. The only unfortunate thing was the outfit was kind of crumpled and since none of the other girls were very skilled with the iron, Jami was handed the task of smoothing it out! I still laugh at the idea of Jami ironing the thing.

Right before lunch arrived, Mace pulled another rabbit out of her hat and this time, it was a questionnaire of 12 details meant to test me on how well I knew Alex. You would think that this could turn out tricky and uncomfortable huh? :) Well, you read the questions below. To complete the fun each of us girls were given a sheet each and our scores would be totaled in the end.

1. Does he know his own car license plate number?
__ yes __ almost __not even close!

2. Does he think eating dinner in bed is:
__ Great! He’d do it every day if he could?
__ OK on rare occasions?
__ Too messy even to contemplate?

3. Does he consider a walk on the beach in winter
__ Romantic?
__ A waste of time?

4. Can he type without looking at the keyboard?
__ Very well
__ OK
__ Not at all

5. If you ask him to recite “Mary had a little lamb,” How will he do?
__ He’ll recite it easily
__ He’ll stumble but more or less get it right
__ He’ll mess up

6. He’s invited to a dinner party and offered a chance to choose his table partner, knowing nothing but their occupation, which of these would he pick to sit next to?
__ Newspaper reporter
__ Minister
__ Firefighter
__ Librarian
__ Fish distributor

7. How many of snow white’s seven dwarfs can he name?
__ None __ One to three __Four to six __ All seven

8. Does he know Cheryl’s mother’s maiden name?
__ Yes __ No

9. A meal without dessert isn’t really a meal. He would:
__ Agree __ Disagree

10. What is he better at?
__ Darts or __ Ping Pong
__ Omelets or __ Scrambled Eggs
__ Hearing or __ Smelling

So you see, they were pretty harmless questions. Nothing that could spark a fight between Alex and I :) It was really fun and upon scoring our results, I scored the HIGHEST! As expected right? Haha…

Mace then coolly goes, “Oh now that THAT is done, I have another here. It’s called Bridal Scattergories!” (Didn’t I say she had tricks?)

The purpose of the game was for everyone to come up with answers to the categories listed using the agreed upon first letters of my name C, Y and L.

Example: A famous male icon - Prince Charles.
A romantic comedy - Casanova (ok its not a really a comedy but there were funny parts!)
A household item - Carpet Cleaner... etc.

We played the game by rotation around the table and it kept us busy while we enjoyed our main courses.


* Picture of the dessert (Sorry, I was having so much fun I forgot about the other dishes!)

After that, Mace, pulled more stuff out of her ‘bag of tricks’, handing out thank you gifts to the rest of the girls, another gift for me, a gift to Eunice for organizing the spa and yet another gift for me to combat the dry weather in Australia. Isn’t she amazing? :) I personally felt like giving her a standing ovation for pulling off so many things. I guess I really didn’t really expect very much and all the surprises really made me a very happy bride-to-be.

* The other 2 gifts Mace handed me from her "bag of tricks"

So again I must say thank you girls. You were all wonderful and really made the day special. I will miss you all so much! Oh, and I didn’t give you guys a hug that day cos’ we were all feeling icky sticky from all the oils and creams from the massage!

* The Fabulously Relaxed Five: EuniceO, Jami, YeeLong, Bride-to-be :p, Mace

cheryl