Disappearing Act?
Well hello everyone! It has been an incredibly long time don’t ya think…
I wanted to give you a quick update on where things stand in my life and where things are going here on the blog. In October of last year, I got married! So you may notice that my name is now Jenn Broda. The time has absolutely flown by since then. Working, going back for a master degree and learning how to live with another person imposing on my time has kept me quite busy! Tea is still a huge part of my daily life and I cannot imagine what each day would be like without the enormous amount I drink. I do feel awful that I have not been documenting that here. And so, I want you all to know that I am contemplating where to go with this blog from here. I will admit that I feel a little out of the loop in the tea world since I have not been keeping up with tea news for a while now and my life is quite full of many hobbies/loves. One of those in particular I am connected to in a way that makes it the only thing I want to do in my spare time! But I often think about how much I miss writing here and how much I gained in my tea journey as I did so, yet my life seems to be taking me in different directions.
With that said, I would like to share a quick tea story with you as well as pictures of the wedding and then I shall wrap this post up. My husband and I just returned from our belated honeymoon to Alaska. I had sadly left my selection of tea at home (one always forgets something) and was without tea the entire trip because I refused to drink the crummy tea bags offered to me. Not saying all tea bags are crummy. These were, I tried them. But all was made right the last day of our trip which was spent in downtown Seattle. We had lots of tea as I insisted we stop in every tea shop we came upon. There was no agenda that day, we simply explored. We discovered a lovely Chinese tea shop and the sweet owner, whose husband did not speak a word of English and was enjoying tea with some friends, made us Ali Shan as well as another, higher elevation Oolong and two Yunnans. My husband and his father (who spent the day with us) were a little leery when I pulled them into the shop for the tasting. They figured I would look around, buy what I wanted and then leave but instead we spent over an hour drinking tea and having a great time! The owner even offered to order an Yixing pot from their supplier when I admired one that wasn’t for sale and I hated to tell her that I wouldn’t be around to pick it up since I was returning home the next day. I think my favorite part of the time we spent drinking tea that day was watching my husband and father-in-law experience teas in a way that they never have. Watching people react to and enjoy tea brings me great pleasure.
And now to finish off this post I will leave you with a few pictures from my wedding. Our lovely photographer agreed to let me use a few of the photos and if you would like to see more of her work from the wedding or the other amazing things she documents with her camera, you can visit her blog here.
That does it for now folks. As I give more thought to where to go with this site and make a decision I shall drink lots and lots of tea! As if I didn’t do that already…
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Alaska, now that sounds like a nice trip. I like to travel with my own tea too and feel out of sorts when I forget to bring it.