High Five for Friday

A rather belated High Five for Friday post, but you might as well get used to that considering I'm about to start school this week. I can defend myself by saying we were trying to pack fun into this last "free" weekend. :)

Let's recap this week:

1. Last weekend we went home (had dentist appointments on Monday - no cavities. Yay!) We got to visit with Jennifer & Jarrod at their new home, and they were kind enough to let us stay for the night. Then more friends came (Dusty, Jason, and Jenna) and we ate dinner. Great times with great friends! We also spent time with our parents, ate a few fig (one of my most favorite things in the world), and went golfing... well, I drove the cart.

2. I did a whole lot of nothing this week. Which is what you should do on your break from school. It was well deserved, if I can so say myself.

3. We discovered Teavana this week. It's a store in our local mall that sells tea and all things tea related. But it's a whole experience to go into. It started because we were easily persuaded by the employee at the entrance passing out free samples of a hot and a cold tea. (I'm not one too pass up many free samples of just about anything.) Plus, I have really wanted to love tea. I know that's silly, but during the winter I would want to end my night with a hot drink, but wouldn't want coffee (caffeine), or even something all that sweet (gasp, I know!). So, I tried a few teas here and there, but never fell in love with any. So, we went into Teavana and they have all of these cute cast iron teapots with matching tiny cups and saucers, some of which had more teas ready for sampling. Then the employee told us to come to the checkout counter for the full experience, where he opened up the big tins that contain the tea blends for you to buy, and waved the lid around the top of the container so that we could smell each one that we had sampled. We bought one of the fruity, herbal teas we had sampled (shown above). The quality of these teas is unlike anything I've ever bought in a tea bag from the grocery store.

4. I had just decided that I wanted a small notebook to carry around while in New York to journal a few notes here and there to help remember all of our experiences. Target knows what they are doing with paper goods. I could stand on the notebook isle and drool over all the cuteness. So when I saw this collection of notebooks, it was perfection. The other two are Paris and Rome... maybe I'll get to use those one day.

5. We spent Saturday at the Birmingham Zoo! (More to come on that later!) (Also, I'm not sure why we look airbrushed in that photo... that's a little weird.)