Brunch At Henry's

Since we were on the topic of brunch yesterday, might as well confess that we did it again this Sunday.  'Tis patio and brunch season after all.  Of course you can sit indoors, but we love to get a little sun when we can.  It was Mother's Day, and so one of the Mum's in the group chose Henry VIII's which is on the South Shore between the Hamilton Princess and the Reef's.  It was of course, packed, but one of the best things of brunch is that the restaurants expect you to stay 2-3 hours with all the courses, bevvies, and coffees.  Which of course we did.

Brunch started with 8 of us.  We had Steve and Adrie again,

One of my favorite couples, the MacGregor's

George was another repeat offender

It's a camera, not a gun George!

Me and Lizzie again,

With Gibbs Hill Lighthouse in the background

And coming out for the first go was a sleep deprived Siobhan, fresh off the night shift at KEMH,

Our lovely Irish Flower needed a little more shade for her self described pastiness

and these pictures must have been taken before the rest of the crew arrived.  Eileen was a few minutes late, possibly due to needing a minimal amount of sleep between the end of the night watching Jimmy Keys who had a show in town and the start of brunch.  Later still was Andy, who had to finish his round of golf first.  Straggling in later still was Lenny, fresh and bright with enough humour to torture Steve for a couple of hours.  And Gary and Kate rolled up a little later for a cocktail in the sun...and I must say the staff took it in their stride while our table of 8 blossomed to 11 on an extremely busy day.  The food was again great, although I missed a whole room of the hot food in the back of the restaurant, and did not have the desire to try to stuff any more in after focusing on breakfast, sushi, and desert.  George was a trooper, going for curry on principle alone at the end (he's a well known curry hound).  We had a great time telling stories of old, plans for trips where will we meet up in the future when some of us are gone, and stories we just made up, like Lenny's detailed description of his time with Steve in the UK secret ops unit.  I do say Steve "the microphone" MacGregor took his share of ribbing this brunch, and there appears to be no end in sight!

Another great outing, I left while the crew headed down the road to Coconuts, another beach side spot just down the road at the reefs.  It sounds like a lot of fun, but, I was still a little tired from the crazy work week and needed to use up the rest card.

Yup, I think there will be a few more brunches this summer.  Lizzie has sniffed one out that has a non-stop champagne service.  I can hardly wait!  But not til June guys, I have guests the next few weeks!