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| At departure from Portland, Oregon |
July 23 through August 6, my 11 year old granddaughter, J, and I visited London, England where my daughter and youngest granddaughter live. The four of us also spent four days in Paris, France. This was J's first time to London and France. We took the usual photos before departing the Portland airport. It is a "thing" here, to photo one's shoes against the airport carpet before one leaves. We made sure to capture that moment!
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| Iconic shoe photo with the airport carpet |
I'll be writing a series of posts describing the top six activities of J's trip. There is no particular order to the posts There may be several activities in a post.
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| The cats at the cafe |
This post will highlight having high tea at
Whiskers and Cream which is a cat cafe. Admittance is by reservation only. The cats are rescues. Patrons can pet, play, photo and admire the cats during their reservation time. The cat no no rules were few. You can't feed the cats people food and you can't pick up the cats. You could order a drink, a drink and a dessert, a high tea or a meal. The time period for high tea was 90 minutes.
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| The cat, Jack |
J LOVED watching, petting and photographing the various cats. She took more than 100 photos/videos of the cats. She snapped the majority of photos in this post.
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| Basil about to leap |
There were cats on tables, on chairs, on scratching posts and in cat beds scattered about the cafe.
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| Basil in repose |
The patrons were all busy with The food was definitely second fiddle to the cats as far as J was concerned! She has an intolerance to dairy. This cafe was able to make a tea that contained no dairy which was great.
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| Jack making himself available for seating too |
We did see one cat try to join a group having a high tea. One of the employees walked over and picked him up before he could help himself to the treats!
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| The three tier tea tray part way through tea |
Our tea consisted of sandwiches, scones and a variety of desserts.
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| J rated the experience a success |
To get to this location, we took a bus, two trains and walked about ten minutes. I was impressed that I was able to navigate there and even more impressed that I was able to navigate back to my daughter's house!
I'll be using my Sunday posts to document our trip. Goal number six on my August list was to begin documenting my trip.
5 comments:
What a fun trip, Terry! I'm looking forward to hearing more about it. Is J your younger-older granddaughter? (LOL, I hope you know what I mean!) The Cat Cafe looks like a neat place to go have tea!
It sounds like you and Miss J. had a delightful adventure. And what a fun cafe to visit. I can see why Miss J. took lots of photos. So many pretty kitties.
Oh what a grand time you two must have had! I look forward to hearing more.
Oh My Goodness! I can't wait to read about the adventures you all had. Great memories that will last forever :) ~t
Too much fun!!! Great that you could spend that time with your GD. Hugs!
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