After a relaxing late start with buckwheat pancakes made by Caroline's mom, we headed out to the shopping mall. At six this morning, Caroline gained a new family member! Her cousin had a baby boy, James Mathew.
Our intent was to shop for a baby gift, but the first store didn't seem to have the perfect thing. As we headed deeper into the mall, we stumbled across the designer tea shop, T2. Caroline had been hankering for more Jasmine tea since experiencing it at the Tathra cafe, and Louise had told us to check out this store.
It was amazing! 180 different kinds of tea, a sample of each available for looking at and smelling. There were also five different pots ready for tasting, including Chocolate Chip Chai, Creme Brule, and the ULTIMATE Turkish Apple Tisane! This instant tea tasted almost like cider and was already sweetened. I snatched up a tin for us all, and Caroline picked out some Chocolate Chip Chai and Red Green Vanilla Rooibos, and Hillie got some Just Chamomile and sencha (green tea). All the tea is loose leaf, so we also bought some tea balls. Caroline had already picked up a beautiful blue tea pot from the Tathra op shop, plus she had a couple others at home. The sales woman also let us snatch some samples of Black Rose, Strawberries and Cream, and sencha Mango. Tonight we'd have a tea party!!
The mall was closing so we zipped through the grocery store for some essentials (brownie mix and lemon bar mix with passion fruit goo on top). *drool*
At home we whipped up a quick dinner of left overs (pork mince Hillie had made for our return last night) and settled down to watch Frasier. It's Caroline's favorite show and with good reason--it's hilarious! When the first episode was done and we'd finished dinner, it was time for tea! Believe it or not, there is a 'way' to make tea. We tried our best and crossed our fingers, and while it was steeping we plated the brownies and then returned to indulge ourselves with another hilarious episode of Frasier.
What. A. PERFECT. Night.
The tea is amazing and SO worth the price and the extra steps. The flavors are true and there's something special about seeing the actual leaves. Paired with a perfectly baked brownie and a great sitcom and a family who's adopted you, life couldn't get much better. *happy sigh*
Caroline and I ended up going back for seconds of dessert and watching the entire disk of Frasier (6 episodes). Outside the air was cooling and the rain was blowing in, and we went to bed relaxed and happy.
I only had to get up twice during the night to pee.
But fell back asleep to the sound of gentle rain. :)
2 comments:
Hi Emily! This is Shelley James! The girls at Ark gave me your blog address so I could check in on you and all your adventures. I have read all your trip updates and I am just fascinated by everything. By the way, you are quite the journalist and I found myself very entralled with your day to day activites! Tilly misses you and so do I! She got her spring hair-do on Friday so she is all sassy and cute! Everything here is starting to bloom and we are finally going to get a few days of really awesome spring weather this week. Looking forward to getting in the yard! Well, just wanted you to know I'm thinking of you. I'll keep reading the updates! Really love it! Take care!!!
Note: I also had buckwheat pancakes this week! Buckwheat = not wheat = ok to eat!! yummm!!
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