Afternoon Tea at Chateau Laurier
Last weekend, we had the pleasure of hosting my mom in Ottawa as the first house-guest since we moved to Ottawa. We took this opportunity to get our daughter’s ears pierced and celebrate with High Tea. We have never been to High Tea while in Europe. It really is a British thing and we hadn’t […]
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