{"id":3343,"date":"2014-06-06T15:54:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T21:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=3343"},"modified":"2014-06-06T15:54:41","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T21:54:41","slug":"the-russian-tea-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/?p=3343","title":{"rendered":"The Russian Tea Room"},"content":{"rendered":"

So the same chick who worked full-time while going to grad school full-time celebrated her birthday last week in New York City.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>(Hint: It\u2019s me.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Bet you woulduv guessed it right away if I had also mentioned that “she” is funny ,\u00a0pretty and smart; everyone says so.)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And on my birthday in New York City we: toured the United Nations, went to mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral, had tea at the Russian Tea room, went for a carriage ride in Central Park, walked through the Plaza Hotel on the way to FAO Schwarz where we played the big piano, had a free coffee (thanks Starbucks!) at Trump Tower, saw the dark comedy Cripple of Inishmaan starring Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter) then waited at the stage door so my daughter could get his autograph on her playbill, finished up with a late dinner of NYC pizza complete with cockroach leg.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Who\u2019s yer daddy?!?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Anyway, where I was going with all of this is that I\u2019m pretty sure our waiter at the Russian Tea Room is in Fight Club.<\/span><\/p>\n

After he seated us in our tilt-a-whirl compartment then closed us in with our\u00a0table covered with a white cloth, I tried to feel him out about it by making polite conversation.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Soooo\u2026how\u2019s Fight Club?<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

But he didn\u2019t respond.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Which further proved my point that he was in Fight Club.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Because everyone knows the first rule of First Club is to never talk about Fight Club.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

However, I did feel he got overly annoyed at our request to NOT have the PB&J triangle\u00a0with\u00a0the kids\u2019 tea because they\u2019re both allergic to peanuts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Of course, his annoyance may have had nothing to do with my Fight Club suspicions, and everything to do with the fact that as soon as we were seated in our sumptuous red leather booth, we discovered Sonny\u2019s entire right hand was covered in filth from touching EVERYTHING on the way to the restaurant (including construction walkways, subway poles and escalator handrails going in the opposite direction).<\/span>\u00a0 And as\u00a0<\/span>we\u00a0piled out of squozed\u00a0position so Sonny could go wash his hands, somehow he got\u00a0the tablecloth caught under his leg and basically dragged all of the settings halfway across the world before we clued into what was happening.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But no harm, no foul because he was more careful on his way back into the booth after he disappeared downstairs to the bathroom for a good half-hour.\u00a0 Nothing says high tea like a nice…rest period…beforehand.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

While he was gone, Sissy tasted her tea (a\u00a0Rooibos Chai), which she discovered was\u00a0very HOT!\u00a0\u00a0This resulted in a lot of\u00a0twitching and jerking\u00a0as she tried her hardest to avoid touching her lips to her\u00a0hot-tea-glass-placed-in-a-hot-metal-handled-holder.\u00a0 Just FYI?\u00a0 Dribbled chai leaves a stain, but is kinda funny to watch.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Despite the inauspicious beginning, the tea party was a success.\u00a0 And the kids even got to taste caviar!\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>I gave them each three\u00a0eggs from my serving which caused them both to shudder and die on the spot.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>This made the rest of the tea nice and quiet for Hubby and I as\u00a0we toasted each other with our complimentary glasses of champagne.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Until I tasted the caviar and shuddered and died my own self.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

COME ON!!!!<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Who likes caviar?!?<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>You\u2019re a TOTAL LIAR if you say you like caviar.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>LIAR!!!<\/span><\/em>\u00a0 <\/span>Because it tastes like fish bait mixed with lox.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Rotten lox.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>I mean, why mess up a good blini with that nonsense?!?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

But on a positive note, all of the shenanigans in our booth eventually caused Fight Cluber to warm up to us.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span>Because he was more than happy to take our picture at the end of our tea to commemorate the occasion.<\/span>\u00a0 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Or was it simply because that picture got us on our merry way sooner rather than later??\u00a0 Naw!\u00a0 I think he likes to see\u00a0yokels once in a while.\u00a0 It breaks up the monotony.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So the same chick who worked full-time while going to grad school full-time celebrated her birthday last week in New York City.\u00a0 (Hint: It\u2019s me.\u00a0 Bet you woulduv guessed it right away if I had also mentioned that “she” is funny ,\u00a0pretty and smart; everyone says so.) And on my birthday in New York City […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[93,98,99,95,100,82,94,90,92,96,97,91],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3343"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3356,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions\/3356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newstayathomemom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}