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Small Big Traveling Tea Box

I love root beer floats. They are so delicious and creamy and I could eat them every single day in the summertime. So needless to say, I was so excited to try this tea!

This tea has root beer but not really any float. I don’t mind so much, though. I can’t drink soda pop because the carbonation makes my eyes stingy and watery.. so this will be a great alternative for me:D very close to a spot on root beer, just missing a bit of the float. I’m so tempted to throw in a bit of vanilla ice cream in here… :D mm, hello summertime:]

Small Big Traveling Tea Box

The leaves of this tea smells like hay to me. Haha. But, luckily, lemon is the strongest flavor of this tea. I would suggest sipping it rather than taking larger gulps… the smaller the sips, the more lemon and the less grassy flavor you get.

Small Big Traveling Tea Box

I can’t say that this tea really strikes me as a Green Apple Tea… It tastes more like a green tea with the slightest flavoring of apple. So maybe green tea with apple is a bit more of an apt name. This tea is alright, just not what I was expecting.

Small Big Traveling Tea Box

Okay, who stole me from Seattle and put me on a tropical island?! This tea is sooo pineapple-y and coconut-y, I can hardly handle it. Seriously, I feel like I am drinking a Pina Colada. So delicious. And something even more awesome, this tea is from a tea shop not too far away from here! Thank you, EvaGrimm for including this tea, you’ve introduced me to a new semi-local tea shop:D

Small Big Traveling Tea Box

Mm. There are so many flavors in this tea. There is a freshness from the lemon, sweetness from the vanilla, tranquility from the chamomile, and cooling from the mint. Wow. Way more flavors than I was originally expecting. Yep, I could definitely picture myself drinking this while watching the sun set tonight:]

Small Big Traveling Tea Box

What is this, a gingerbread tea? Oh man, you honestly can’t expect me to keep my hands off this one. Talk about a perfect seasonal treat! It smells strongly on ginger and cinnamon…now I want to bake some cookies:P tehehe..

I don’t know how they accomplished it, but it has the lovely baked flavor that you would find in an actual gingerbread cookie!! The tea leaves smell much sweeter than the tea actually is…which I do really appreciate. Gingerbread cookies are so delicious in their own right, they do not need to be slathered in icing and this is what the tea captures. I added a bit of milk to my tea and mmmm, gingerbread in a cup!

Small Big Traveling Tea Box

This tea has a wonderfully strong scent of cinnamon and spices. It is warm and cinnamony with a light touch of oolong and sweet orange. It reminds me of the transition from summer to fall. Gorgeous. I don’t know that I would go out and buy a cup of this, but I’m enjoying it so much while it is here.

Herbal Traveling Tea Box

This is the last tea from the box that I need to review—Wow, what an adventure. I’ve experienced teas that I never thought I would like that I have loved and teas that I thought I’d love that just weren’t my cuppa. So much fun. Thank you madametj for arranging this wonderful tea box and for allowing me to join^.^!

There was a note on this tea by Marzipan to try this tea iced. I was nervous-it’s entirely hibiscus… but hey, I trust Marzipan’s opinion. And she knew what she was talking about! I tried a sip of this while it was hot- and oh gosh, so tart my lips squeezed in!.. So I waited for it to cool…added some ice…and took a sip. Still super tart. But upon adding agave…yum! It tastes like a mix between lemonade and fruit punch! So much better than I was expecting^.^ Really, if you guys are in this box, do try it!

Herbal Traveling Tea Box

This tea smells amazingly like mango. And it definitely has a lot more flavor than the last tea that I was drinking. I really do like this tea but the mango flavor tastes artificial to me.. The rooibos in this tea is not barky, either ( you know you have been spending a good amount of time with dogs lately when you type “barky” and start to giggle because you picture your tea cup barking at you every time you try to take a sip… xD). Over all, a nice flavorful rooibos.

Herbal Traveling Tea Box

Today was hiking Sunday! :D Today we went on a long, gorgeous hike that had nine separate waterfalls… man, do I love Washington. Hiking through the extravagantly green old growth forest and listening to the rivers rush is most certainly serene. I picked this tea to start out my last bit of the Herbal Traveling Tea Box marathon because I knew that it would continue that serene feeling… and it does!^.^

This tea is really quite light with a taste of fennel and cardamon. It is odd for me to have the flavor of fennel in a tea instead of a soup, but this tea does it nicely. The aftertaste has a little bit of a cooling effect for me. I don’t know why it does this but it is sure fun! :D A delicious light tea for those serene days—or maybe those days where you need serenity. :]