Market Madness

If it's Saturday, we're hitting the market, right? Especially since my sister arrived this morning!
Cara and her friend Laura arrived about 11:30 this morning. They left Charlotte on the good old 7:50 p.m. flight - but they were late leaving because someone on the plane had a denied visa and they had to get their luggage off the plane. This took two hours. What an exciting way to start a trip!
Anyway, they arrived and we took off to the Portobello Road market. Cara was a focused shopper and she really found some nice things. She discovered a store that we had to practically drag her out of. They had the most gorgeous silver pieces - and really odd pieces too. We learned that if you buy English silver it is marked so you can tell the date. We looked at so many pieces and Cara knew what most of them were for, too. Once I get past knife, fork and spoon, I'm over my head, but the silver lady was impressed with Cara's knowledge of oddball silver pieces. She gave her a nice discount too.
I bought a 1928 jam spoon with a mother of pearl handle. So I'll be pretty fancy serving my Smuckers from now on.
We got home from the market and Cara and Laura were beat, so Keith and I fixed supper, including my now famous-on-two-continents shepherd's pie and a raspberry, sherry and custard trifle. (Okay, I didn't make that. I bought it. And it was GOOD!)
Tomorrow is more fun with the Surry County girls - I get to be a real tourist and guide too!