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Because I didn’t sleep last night, got up at four and am just now getting home. Too bad it’s the last of this wonderful stuff.

A happy staple tonight as the rest of the items I wish to sample from the Hidden Gems Tea Box are caffeinated.

Threw in some chamomile too. It doesn’t seem to mess with the flavor that I love too much!

Hidden Gems Tea Box: This tea has a good body. However it isn’t for me. I think the boyfriend liked it more than I did. There is a a good blend of spices towards the end of the sip.

Hidden Gems Tea Box: I’m not sure how I feel about this one. It almost has a coffee flavor. I don’t really even know if the flavor I’m getting is chocolate. There is a little bit of a bite about mid sip that I can’t decide if I enjoy or not.

Hidden Gems Tea Box: I expected more tartness out of this one. I do taste the lime which is great. I also get a bit of the pie flavor. I think I just want this to have more of a punch like when I take a bite out of a Key Lime Pie. Don’t get me wrong, I do really enjoy it. I blame Anlina for introducing me to a new tea company that I have to check out, as both teas I have tried from Lux Berry Tea have been very pleasant. The kicker is that they were both black and I rarely reach for blacks!

Hidden Gems Tea Box: I really liked the smell of the dry leaf of this one. I also tend to go back and forth between tea and coffee depending on my mood for a particular day. I am in a tea mood as this lovely Traveling Tea Box is on my counter but I thought this one would be a good place to start this morning. I cannot drink straight coffee. Keeping in mind that my version of coffee are the foo foo drinks, on to the tea -

I ended up adding milk and sugar to this. Doing that seemed to turn it into a creamy, yummy, hot chocolate. I’m not finding that I am getting the bite that I do when I try to drink coffee on it’s own. I could really see keeping this in rotation for those days that I think I want coffee but don’t want to go to the coffee shop to get a foo foo drink. Thank you Anlina for including this one!

Hidden Gems Tea Box: A big shout out to Anlina for organizing this box for our enjoyment!

Coming home to this and my first teapot waiting for me in the mail was a wonderful way to end a crazy week.

I think I underleafed this one. It doesn’t seem to carry much flavor. I’m getting a strange fruity flavor and then at the very end of the sip something that feels like mint as a tickle in my throat. I think I’ll hang onto this one and use the rest of the leaf for another pot and see how I feel about it when I attempt to overleaf it.

This tea because I haven’t had it in too long and I’m in a “mood”, apparently according to the boyfriend. This one never fails to make me happy.

On another note – I went to the local tea shop and came back with quite the load. I am finding it hard to drink up the teas I already had and am favoring the newer ones. I have way too much tea that is approaching ten months old!

Great standby – chocolate and peppermint :)

The boyfriend, the dog, and I went on a nice long walk to Starbucks. I had the boyfriend order this for me in an attempt to avoid the higher calorie coffee drinks as I cannot drink straight coffee.

This blend is pretty tasty. As I am a big fan of mint I don’t mind that it overpowers the other flavors. I do still get some citrus. I didn’t think that citrus and mint would go well together, this tea proved otherwise. I could see ordering this one again.