Starbucks and Updates!

The snow all melted today. It's about 55 degrees outside and you would never know there was two inches of snow in our front yard yesterday. I had a response to my last post saying there was six inches of snow further inland and closer to Tokyo. What a crazy day, yesterday!

Today things are back on track. One of the things I learned recently was the coffee tumblers at the Japanese Starbucks are much more collectible and nicer than the coffee tumblers at the Starbucks back home.

The Starbucks on base, just unveiled their spring cherry blossom collection, which is beside their Japanese city tumbler collection. Each large Japanese city has a Starbucks tumbler/travel mug dedicated to them. The designs are intricate and beautiful and are supposed to represent the highlights and history of each city.

I went there today and got a coffee tumbler/travel mug from their spring collection. It's small and holds about one regular mug of coffee. It cost me a whopping $18 dollars. It is pretty though. It's taking every ounce of strength I have not to go back and buy the entire spring collection, which includes a tea thermos.