I am being positively spoiled with visitors this month. First my dad came, and then a mere week and a half ago I got an email from my friend Siret (of London and cupcakes fame) saying she’d be coming to Tallinn for a few days with her mother and mother’s fiance! What a lovely surprise, especially when I didn’t think I’d see her again before next summer.
Last night Siret and I had a girls’ night, catching up and enjoying dinner and a bottle of Riesling at African Kitchen (which has plenty of yummy choices for vegetarians like Siret). After dinner I accompanied her back to the rental apartment since she had “a whole pile” of stuff to give me. Man, she wasn’t kidding! I had asked her to maybe bring us a few bags of flavored coffee from the States, and this is what she actually brought:
Christmas pretzel M&M’s and Oreos
British Christmas treats from London
Lärabars! (she faithfully reads the blog so she knew I’d failed to obtain any during the summer)
Strawberry preserves with champagne (cannot wait to try this!)
Trader Joe’s tea and pumpkin butter
Bridal magazines and some British candies
…and of course, the requested flavored coffees (hazelnut, maple vanilla, and pumpkin spice!). Now we have to decide which one to open this weekend…
She is so sweet! I’m already happy that I get to see my oldest friend and her mother (whose flat J and I stayed in when we visited London last year), so getting fun food gifts from the USA and England is like the decadent icing on an already wonderful cake. Thank you Siret!!
Merry early Christmas hon! (It really feels like Christmas here with the snow.) Enjoy the yummies!
I’ll come visit you as soon as the TSA stops groping the s*** out of people 🙂
You probably remember that I’m going to Lakewood this weekend and we’re making verivorstid– so excited! Miss you!
I came from BWI and had no groping or naked security cameras or anything. They randomly picked me at the gate for some paper against my bag thing and I had to answer some guy about how much cash I was carrying (answer: “um, I have some change in the bottom of my purse? so like 50 cents?”) but I was kind of disappointed there was no big hullaballoo.
Oh wow!!! what a lovely surprise 🙂 I’m looking closely since I’m looking for tips and stuff what to bring back from London in few weeks.
If you want some special Christmas treats to bring back, I’d suggest visiting Fortnum & Mason– they have an enormous selection of all kinds of fancy food stuff!
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