hobnobbing with the wealthy

I'm going to go ahead and start this post with a warning. Grandpa Vawdrey doesn't know about this, and he better not find out about it. If any of you open your big yappers and tell him, consider yourself stuck with the bill--and a very significant one it was!

We decided to live life yesterday in New York City as the wealthy do with a lunch at Tavern on the Green. This is a fancy shmancy restaurant in Central Park, and it was certainly the most expensive lunch I've ever had. I curled Sarah's hair for the occasion, and she was adorable. Many people at the restaurant thought so also. She was an absolute angel the whole time as well as the only child (with the exception of Zach) in the whole restaurant. That earned us some balloons at our table. I think Sarah really enjoyed her $20 nuggets and fries. She also had a dish of pineapple and her own adorable bottle of ketchup. It was when Sarah said, "This is the Mozart music," that we decided she seemed to fit in there much better than the rest of us. An ice cream sandwich for her would have been $3 more. We'll save our $3 for the ice cream truck, thank you very much!
As I said, the place was fancy. We ate inside a solarium garden-type room. It was filled with chandeliers and real tulips. The decor is a bit much for my personal taste, but it was certainly fancy. We were, of course, surrounded by rich people. Zach flirted with all of the women around us until he was all tuckered out and promptly fell asleep for the remainder of the lunch.
The hallways were filled with pretty chandeliers like this one as well as several stained glass windows.
We considered eating out in the garden beneath the trees filled with lanterns but opted to dine inside as it was a bit breezy for our expensive taste. We couldn't have our fancy hairdos (at least Sarah's anyway) blown in the breeze. For lunch, I had the carmelized onion soup (not bad), parmesan & herb-crusted chicken (pretty stinking tasty), and mascarpone cheesecake (delicious). The bread was divine. Yummy!