Last Saturday.....

Sharon and I met up at 10am, a nice reasonable time at Bakers and Spice.  Yes, it's just as it sounds, a lovely bakery with fantastic bread, pastries, lattes, coffee and my new favorite drink, kumquat tea, heavenly!

As it was a wonderfully bright and sunny day, after our liquid libation, we headed out for a nice long walk. We saw this old house being restored and wondered who had lived there and what their lives may have been like back in 1920.

After our day-dreaming we continued our walk and encountered this sign:

Which brought us to our lunch venue, Nova.  I have wanted to try Nova but have been told it is a very expensive French Bistro.  We stood outside and noticed the chalk board which read - 88RMB for 2 plates and 108RMB for 3 plates.  Hmmm, a quick calculation : 88RMB = $13.50 / 108RMB = $16.60, seemed like a deal to us.  A neat little place, a great treat to eat at a French Bistro on this fine day. The meal started with 3, hot from the oven, rolls and some butter.  We then each had the potato and leek soup, with buttery garlic croutons floating on top.  I had the salad with bacon, poached egg and a mustardy vinaigrette- yum. Sharon had the chopped cabbage salad with raisins, emmethal cheese and hard boiled egg.  We thought it was terrific.  Unfortunately as we were talking non-stop I only remembered to take a picture after we had cleaned our plates so I just didn't bother.  Trust me when I tell you, we will go back and it was great value.

Prior to lunch we had passed what looked like a nice Massage place and after our lunch we went inside to see if they could accommodate us.  Two foot massages please! The response, right this way ladies!

 Into a room for two.

With a nice waitress who brought us some tea.

 Our guys who did a fantastic job, I highly recommend them!

 My guy, number 69, is what is name tag reads on the upper right side of his shirt. Geez, can't they use their names?

Our little selves and our happy feet!  There was a special going on,  all massages were 30% off before 7pm, so for 88RMB ($13.50, same as the cost of the lunch!!!!) we got ourselves an hour long foot massage.  I just can't wait to go back.  I think I will try the shoulder and head massage next time.  I wonder what happens after 7pm that they have to charge full price?