Getting in the Mood

...for Japan, with a bit of "Austrian tea ceremony". Last night, MC and I went for an after-work...erm...tea (I know, we're wild ones, the two of us) at a nice little tea and coffee shop near our office. Her tea (Assam with milk on the side came in a gorgeous lime pot and saucer), mine in an Asian metal pot. Bot arrived with "tea-timers" that started beeping like alarm clocks when the tea was "done".