Chyckfest

[kenjari]

Thanks to hca for hosting a sleep-over party for grown-ups. We had high tea at the Edwardian Tea Room in Arlington. It's a wonderful place. Both the tea and the nibblies are delicious, and everything is so civilized and elegant without being stuffy or pretentious. hca, epilimnion, davidsmom1, jila, and I spent about two hours there enjoying tea and refinement. Then we went back to hca's place for the perfect accompaniment to high tea: 7 hours of Jane Austen in cinematic form. We watched the Emma Thompson/Ang Lee version of Sense and Sensibility. I didn't know Alan Rickman was in it - a most pleasant surprise. Then we settled in for the five hour BBC production of Pride and Prejudice, with a young Colin Firth as Darcy. I highly recommend it. Not only does it have Colin Firth, but Jennifer Ehle makes and absolutely perfect Elizabeth Bennett. And, best of all, the production is very thorough in its treatment of the book. Admittedly, it's been a rather long time since I've read it, but everything is there, nothing is oimitted, condensed, or glossed over. And it really is a very romantic story. But then again, anyone who know myself and my husband shouldn't be surprised that I like a story that features an intelligent, spirited heroine, and a hero who is brooding and a bit prickly but really good underneath it all.
In addition to the Jane Austen and tea, there was much good conversation and general female bonding.