Yesterday I spent the day at a Bridal Show. It was a good day! My daughter Ari came with me to help work my booth, handing out my biz cards to people & extolling on my virtues as a Musician while I sat there playing a mix of classical, rock, jazz, etc on my electric harp. I booked several weddings on the spot, ran out of biz cards (& I had tons of them!), & it was a long day, but also the best bridal show I’ve done in awhile. I owe it, at least in part, to Ari, as she is a delightfully wonderful person & naturally good with people, & I admit that it’s very nice to be able to say that about your own kid!
I started the day with Zhu Rong, & I brought the following teas:
-Spring 2013 “Tong Mu Guan Jin Jun Mei” from Yunnan Sourcing, which I drank in a cup en route
-Imperial Breakfast Summer Blend from Verdant. I made 2 steepings at home, & then combined them into my insulated 16 oz cup. Sadly, someone has apparently used that cup for coffee recently. Why is it that coffee drinkers don’t get the fact that cups aren’t interchangeable? I recently bought 4 mugs & informed people (my 3 adult children that live here) that “those are coffee mugs” & then, gesturing at my special drinking vessels, explained that “these are ONLY for TEA”. I drank it, but it was laced with an undercurrent of coffee flavor.
-Vanilla Citrus Spice – I brought this, along with my to-go steeping basket, & begged some hot water from the starbucks at the convention center. They only acquiesced because I also bought Ari a cup of java. I
-By the end of the show, Ari was feeling kind of flu-like, so when I got to Tony’s, I drank 2 cups of Elderberry, as a precautionary measure. I even added a little Astraguls tincture to one cup.
That was my tea drinking day. I’m not doing individual tasting notes because I’ve already written pretty extensively about them all, & I’m basically lazy.
Perhaps get or use a label maker and label them?