RHOA- "Let's toast to my baby"

This episode starts with Phaedra preparing for the her sons "Sip-n-See" not Slip in Slide- "Sip-n-See". It's a southern tradition, ya know. She's hoping that the ladies attending will be on their best behavior. The last time the group got together Kim and Phaedra exchanged some heated words- something like "your husbands an ex-con" and "show me the papers that prove you're a nurse". More after the jump...
At the baby's coming out party Phaedra and Kim decide to chat one-on-one. Kim brings her LPN certificate- BAM- and Phaedra explains to Kim how she and Apollo met and that despite his criminal past everyone deserves a second chance. It looks like these two will play nice going forward. Miracles do exist.

Meanwhile, NeNe is forging ahead with her entertainment reporter career. Her first interview is with Jermaine Dupree. Things get off to a bumpy start and  Jermaine doesn't seem interested or impressed with NeNe. She didn't do her research and asks him a bunch of silly questions. It's not looking good and then NeNe lightens the mood by asking Jermaine what he thinks of Kim's singing career. That's enough to make anyone laugh. He loosens up and the interview ends well but NeNe sees that being a real journalist isn't easy.

Kim and Kandi begin their three city tour and Kandi's manager/assistant Don Juan has set-up some ground rules that Kim is none to happy about. When Kim sees the tour bus the complaints start immediately and Kandi doesn't know how she's going to deal with Kim and her "assistant" Sweetie.

Cynthia and Peter try their hand at pre-marriage counseling with their actor/friend/author/relationship expert Hill Harper. Who knew he was a relationship expert? Peter's business is suffering with the economic downturn and money is tight and conflict occurs between the couple. The dream wedding that Cynthia has been dreaming of may not happen. Cynthia is also upset because she invested several thousand dollars in Peter's business which technically makes it her business as well. They're not even married yet and money is already a problem. I really had high hopes for this couple but unfortunately when the money is funny it causes even the strongest couples to loose sight of what's really important.

It's show time in Charlotte for Kandi and Kim. Despite smoking cigarettes and drinking Kim does well with the "hip-hop" crowd. Kandi won't kick her off the tour yet. We'll see what happens on their next stop.

Until next week...