Having survived heavy snow, 60mph wind gusts, & sub-zero temps just a day earlier, didn’t seem like super timing for a company tour of Celestial Seasonings — but this is Colorado! Just hang in there!
Woke to bright sunshine (& below zero temps) – perfect day for the Boulder Tea Tour.
Take the FREE Celestial Seasonings Tour!
Don’t miss your chance to see the world’s most advanced tea production plant. We offer FREE tours every day (except major holidays) so you can see first–hand how the finest all–natural ingredients from around the world become your favorite Celestial Seasonings teas.
Favourite moments:
- Hair Net (& later being asked to wear a Beard Net)
- the Mint Room – while most folks eyes were burning, think I could spend all day in Mint 🙂
- Celestial Café – I like to eat, lunch was tasty, ‘nuf said
What did I retain?
- Most of Celestial’s teas are not teas at all – but rather, herbal blends of spices, plants & berries
- Conceptually I think I understand the decaffeination process – but don’t quiz me 🙂
- Hawthorn is some scentless berry, full of antioxidants. World’s biggest producer of Hawthorn berries is Chile. [Beginning of the tour, just after receiving my beard net – clearly I was wide awake, all synapses firing…LOL>]
If in Boulder, take the tour. As ya’ll know, FREE is for me!
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- Hair Net magic
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- Tea Tour Fun!
As this is now my 3rd Christmas in Colorado, decided it time to put more effort into holiday decorating.
Focused on sprucing up the evergreen on my front deck. Strings of blue lights, red & green ball ornaments, embellished with a few Christmas Stars helped portray a good first year attempt. Tree’s still a bit scraggly – although it’s shot up mighty fast.
ALSO, added my first LED Polar Bear. Hope to accumulate add’l bears in years to come & create a Christmas polar bear habitat.
On Dancer & Dasher, Comet & Vixen – hurry fast, scurry quick or my bears will celebrate with Christmas venison 🙂
Happy Black Friday weekend – only 25 days ‘til Christmas!
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- Christmas Red & Green
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- Holiday Snow
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- Christmas Polar Bear
LOVE LOVE National Geographic’s Crossing the Ice – AMMMMMAAAAZING!
Was it the snow, the location or just the impossibility of the challenge itself? Yep, probably the latter.
Best film of the year. Highly recommended!
Next time you’re in the gym & they call you crazy for thinking you can finish an Ironman, without EVER competing & completing a triathlon (never mind age) – watch these 2 Aussies first learn to ski, then reach the South Pole unassisted.
Absolutely anything is possible.
After the crossing the Tasman the boys took on an even more audacious challenge – the first ever unsupported trek from the coast of Antarctica to the South Pole and back. Starting with very limited experience they spent months researching, consulting with experts from all round the globe, training in the Arctic and NZ, rehearsing the skills they would need to survive in the highest, driest, windiest and coldest place on Earth.
Pulling loads that started at 160kg and temperatures as cold as -40 C, they battled frostbite, injury, whiteouts, crevasses, gear failure and slow starvation. During the 89 days it took them to ski 2275km without any outside support or assistance they lost a combined 55kg of body weight. Their adventure set a new benchmark and raised the bar of polar exploration globally.
Facts about Crossing the Ice:
- Crossing the Ice was the first EVER unsupported return journey to the South Pole.
- Cas and Jonesy are the youngest team to ever reach the South Pole.
- Previous attempts: Jon Muir, Peter Hillary and Eric Phillips attempted the return journey in 1998. They reached the South Pole after 84 days on the ice but didn’t complete the return. Kiwi adventurers: Kevin Biggar and Jamie Fitzgerald also attempted the return journey in 2007, their attempt was also unsuccessful.
- Less people have man hauled to the South Pole (58 people) than have stood on the summit of Mt Everest (4600).
‘Crossing the Ice’
