I have been looking forward to summer for months. Since late January, actually. Summer officially arrived on Monday. Starbucks says so.
As much as I have enjoyed trying all of the Boca Java Bloggersfuel coffees, I have been looking forward to the arrival of Gazebo more. Last Thursday when Alex, a nice boy barrista I know, told me it would finally be in on Monday, I was THRILLED beyond belief.
TW and I happened to be standing at the counter waiting for our coffee on Monday morning when the delivery dude pushed his way passed us with his cart full of Starbucks boxes. It took me about 15 seconds and then I said MY GAZEBO is here! Little miss nutrition major barrista tried to ignore me and pretend like she didn’t know what I was TALKING about. She tried to PRETEND like she wasn’t going to rip those boxes open for me and sell me a bag right that red hot minute. She’s a mean girl and I will never dream about her and my sister going shopping together again – that will teach her, won’t it?
She was only mean for a minute and then she wiggled boxes around and wiggled more boxes around and found the one I needed. She ripped it open. She handed it to me. I bought it with my trusty Starbucks card (thus leaving me $2 short for our daily coffee on the card but what the heck) and I took my bag home happily.
I didn’t rush right home and make a pot. I finished the last of the Boca Java, a blend I did not really enjoy and TW hated the smell of. Today, however, I am making my Gazebo. And I am excited. What a perfect way to end June and kick off the very long and crazy month of July.
I wish Starbucks understood that summer doesn’t start in July for those of us in the southeastern part of the US of A. I wish Starbucks understood that and respected our needs and shipped our Gazebo in, oh let’s say, MARCH.
Now I’m off to enjoy my cup and listen in on a phone conference. Mmmmm summer.
I was thinking that same thing when I bought my first 2006 pound of Gazebo on tuesday… We FL Girls need the perfect iced coffee blend in March or April.
Gazebo? Sounds like summer, I can’t imagine it being anything other than mild though. I bought a Tassimo awhile back, I love the variety of European coffees it makes, I don’t think I can ever go back now…though I do love to hang out at Starbucks. Not sure if they will let me play chess in there with my Tassimo travel mug
Gazebo is very light – as click Michelle mentioned, many people like it over ice. I do not. I don’t like iced coffee, except if I go to a thai restaurant or maybe an occasional cuban coffee over ice. Gazebo totally tastes like summer. 🙂
You can definitely play chess in Starbucks with your tassimo travel mug. Do it, you deserve an hour of relaxation. Take the big boy with you, people watch, discuss women. That’s what Starbucks is for! 😉
Good to have you back, FB.