Kristen's Birthday Brunch

To celebrate Kristen's birthday, Ashley and I thought of surprising Kristen, with going to a place she's always wanted to visit and that none of us had been to.  We went to the Hanover Tavern for Brunch.  This place was so cute.  We can't believe we'd never been there before.  Melissa joined us.  It was a lot of fun.

Here's the entrance into the building.

This was the name of the room where we ate our brunch.

The seating areas were comfy and cozy.

The waitress handed Kristen a birthday card.  When I made the reservations I mentioned we were celebrating a birthday so they surprised Kristen with a card.  Very kind of them.

Here's a picture of the menu.  It was hard to decide what we wanted.  haha

The waitress brought us some warm raisin bread with cinnamon butter.  OMG....the butter was sooooo good.  I asked for more to use on my biscuit.

I ordered the A La Carte where I chose my plate of 2 eggs, bacon, biscuit and fresh fruit cup.

Melissa ordered eggs benedict with crab cakes and a side of grits.

Kristen ordered grits....They are from the Byrd Mill that's down the road from the Tavern.  I tasted them.  They were very cheesy.  Kristen really enjoyed them.

Kristen ordered the Western Omelette for her meal.  With a biscuit and grits on the side.

Ashley ordered the pumpkin pancakes.  She let us all try them.  They were delicious!

Here's a view of Kristen's and Ashley's food.  :)  After we filled our bellies we had Kristen open her gifts.

Sign in the waiting area.  We were bummed that the gift shop was closed.  We want to go back so we can visit the gift shop and maybe see a show since there's a theater there.

An ink quill.  Melissa & I thought this was really cool.

As we were ready to go, Kristen, wanted to get a quick picture of all of us together.  Kristen, asked a older woman to take our picture.  She hesitated at first because she said she was bad at it.  She goes to take the picture and she said "Say.....SEX".  ahahahahaha....totally took us off guard.  She was funny.

We walked around the grounds and took some pictures.

I walked across the street and stood in what was the original Hanover Courthouse.  This is where in 1763 Patrick Henry lighted the torch of Liberty in the Parsons clause.  Source

Love old bricks...

Next to the courthouse was an old jail.

Good times!  Happy Birthday Kristen!  :)  Some of the pictures are from Kristen.  She has the better camera.  :)