Tuesday, December 06, 2011

Drink Your Advent Calendar

Every year, Allison and I buy advent calendars.  To us it's one of the most important Christmas traditions.  We also do whatever we can to buy these advent calendars in Germany because we feel they make the best quality inexpensive advent calendars.  We never like to spend large quantities of money on the really fancy, expensive calendars, and German cheap advent calendars have proven to have the best chocolate for the price.
This year, while Allison was in Germany (lucky us), she came across a really great idea to ad to the advent calendar tradition.  Advent calendar tea gives you 24 tea bags, each a different flavour.  This is a great way to count down the days until Christmas and it also lets you try all kinds of different tea.
Each package is clearly marked with the day and the type of tea.  This is good because it would be horrible to try a tea, love it, and have no idea what flavour it is.  It's also nice that they numbered the bags because if they didn't, then you might just think they randomly threw teabags into a box and called it an advent calendar.  I'm wondering if the closer you get to Christmas, the more festive the flavours.
So this year we have a new countdown to Christmas tradition.  In the morning we enjoy our advent chocolate, and in the evening a cup of advent tea.  I sure hope advent tea takes off because I'd love to do it every year.

CC

No comments: