I had just spent the last two days in New York for work and was back at home in my office working my tail off. My husband was telling me that his gift still hadn't shipped when it dawned on me to check the shipping on my own gift. Wouldn't you know it?! It was showing as delivered. Our office manager clearly hadn't checked the mail in a few days so it was up to me to make the dangerous and long trek in the 100 degree weather to the mail box (I'm exaggerating here... the mail box is across the street but in 100 degree weather it IS long and dangerous)!

I go out to the box and like magic it was there! YAYAYAYAY! Being the good little office person I am, I grabbed EVERYTHING in the mail box and headed back to my office.

Now, I had a very difficult choice to make. Should I open them here while at work or should I wait until I got home. Hmm... decisions, decisions... aaaannnddd IMPATIENCE wins!

I ripped into them, extremely excited to see what I had in my two packages. The first package contained six tins of different Chinese teas. I was pleased already! I love tea. Drinking tea is a nightly 'unwind' ritual for me and I love greens and Chinese teas.

The second package was SUPER heavy! Hmm... either this is some serious tea or else...bricks...yes...bricks! So I open it and there's a note from the company, a place I hadn't heard of but made me super excited to see what was in the 4 additional boxes within. I opened the first one and instantly knew what was in the rest, a Japanese style cast iron tea pot, trivet and two tea cups! I was absolutely floored and immediately snapped a pic (a crappy one) on my cell phone and sent to my husband. He would benefit from this gift as well! Needless to say, he was happy.

I can't wait to use it. I really learned to enjoy the zen of tea while living in Japan and this was a perfect and extremely thoughtful gift! Thank you soooo much; Arigatoo Gozaimasu!