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Celebrating the First – Cafe La Llave Style

June 21, 2022 By Marta Darby

UPDATE 6/27/2022:  WE HAVE A WINNER!! 

First, let me explain how I choose the winner. I take all the entries from each of the posts I produce: Blog, Instagram, & Facebook. Then I use the Random Number Generator to give me the number of the winner in each place. Then I narrow down the winners and again randomly choose a winner. It’s as fair as it gets! 

Then winner is: @cleorose05 from Instagram. Congratulations! And thank you all for playing and being such good sports! 

xo,

Marta

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This post is sponsored by my favorite coffee people, Café La Llave. The opinions contained in this piece are all my very own.

I am sincerely full of good intentions. Seriously. 

But you know what the road to hell is paved with, of course. *sigh* So, I’ll humbly confess that I had great intentions to post this great Cafe La Llave Giveaway before Father’s Day. Obviously that didn’t happen. (I know. Shut up.)

I even wrote an amazing post… in my head. Que pena, right? 

Undaunted by my recent failure, I am plowing ahead and with the gracious generosity of my friends at Cafe La Llave, I am offering the latest giveaway box as a Celebration of the First Day of Summer! Ahora sí! 

Now that is something to celebrate! June 21st is, of course, the first day of Summer and it should be celebrated with a beautiful gift box of Cafe La Llave goodies. 

Because our Cubanity needs this kind of celebratory expression ALL THE TIME. Am I right? 

Please appreciate this First Day of Summer Celebratory Cafe La Llave Gift Box Giveaway. *drum roll*

Isn’t it a beauty? 

This gift box I’m giving away has 2 boxes of Café La Llave with the Cafe La Llave Espresso Capsules (compatible with Nespresso machines). Plus two Café La Llave tacitas with the gorgeous gold lettering. Also, a pair of Cafe La Llave socks and a pin. How fun is that? 

Here’s how to enter the giveaway for this Beautiful Café La Llave Espresso Capsules & cups : Leave a comment and answer one or all of the following questions. 

  1. Tell me your big plans for this summer.
  2. Do you like cold coffee drinks? (I personally don’t, but that’s not important right now.)
  3. Do you think your dad might like those socks? 😉  (I know. Shut up.)

Leave a comment here on this post to enter. Also, let me tell you how you can have a second chance to win this beautiful basket… 

You are welcome to leave entry messages on my posts on Facebook and Instragram. They all count! What a delightful adventure this turned out to be!

Please go give Cafe La Llave some love on Instagram, come back here and say “I liked Cafe La Llave!”

Because Celebrating our Cubanity and the First Day of Summer is something we Cubans like to do all the time.

Am I right? (I’m right.)

’ll be choosing a winner on Monday, June 27th, 2022 at 11:00 am. I’ll post the winner right here on this blog post.

You should totally have your new flip flops and a good starter tan going by then. Good luck! 

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  1. Mercy Lorenzo says

    June 21, 2022 at 7:12 am

    My big plan this summer already happened, we flew to California for my husband’s cousin’s funeral and also visited our daughters. Then we drove cross country from California to West Palm BEACH. TOOK MY ELECTRIC EXPRESSO COFFEE MAKER AND OF COURSE MY cafe la leave y mi azuquita,lol.
    I don’t like cold coffee and I would rock those socks!

  2. Madeleine Othon-Roque says

    June 21, 2022 at 7:26 am

    Unfortunately no plans for summer. Cold coffee but only the kind I make at home using condensed milk . Socks would great on anyone, including my very Cuban husband. Thanks for the awesome post.

  3. Teresa Dellinger says

    June 21, 2022 at 7:27 am

    Visiting my family in Miami. I love all coffee hot or iced. And I would rock those socks.

  4. Aisha Jack says

    June 21, 2022 at 7:44 am

    I just got back from touring the UK and Ireland so the rest of the summer I’ll be staying local (I’m in NY) and just visit my sister in Maryland.

    I LOVE cold coffee drinks! Even when it’s cold I’m still getting an iced coffee drink before work, lol.

    I think my dad would love those socks! They would definitely keep his feet warm at night☺️

    • Aisha says

      June 21, 2022 at 7:46 am

      I liked Cafe La Llanpve on instagram (beautyboo16 is my instagram handle)

  5. Daisy Baños Alvarez says

    June 21, 2022 at 9:18 am

    Spain
    No
    Nope

  6. Cathy Rodriguez says

    June 21, 2022 at 9:21 am

    Plans for summer: We hope to visit our Cuban family in NJ & Miami. Being away from the Cuban restaurants and bakeries is a hardship that no Cuban should go through. 😃
    Cold coffee drinks: No, I haven’t found any cold coffee drink that I enjoy so I stick to the hot drinks.
    Socks: well, if his feet are cold, I’m sure he will wear them. BUT, maybe not in public.

    Thank you, Marta for the opportunity to win this nice gift. I always enjoy your posts.
    Cathy Rodriguez

  7. Cathy Rodriguez says

    June 21, 2022 at 9:27 am

    I left a message and I liked Cafe La Llave

  8. mirtha valdes martin says

    June 21, 2022 at 12:27 pm

    Summer plans: still not ready to venture too far. Looking forward to staying local and spending beach time with our growing family. My parents are about to become bis-abuelos. We are about to become abuelos…. Looking forward to being called Mima which is what both of my parents called each of my grandmothers. My husband is looking forward to being called Papa. So, enjoying family time, lazy beach days, and dinners together. Still hard to believe we have three grown sons, two amazing daughters-in-law, a grandson on the way and my two healthy parents to enjoy it all with

  9. Beatriz Garcia says

    June 21, 2022 at 5:58 pm

    1 Big plan this summer, two weeks in a fabulous Florida beach.
    2 yes I do like iced coffee
    3 I don’t think so.

  10. Darla Buckels says

    June 22, 2022 at 12:09 pm

    My summer plans are to spend much needed time resting and being with my kids!!
    I love cold brew iced coffee, no sugar on a very hot day… otherwise Hot Coffee everyday!
    And the socks? I would love them ☺️😉
    Here’s to a wonderful Summer!
    Love you, Darla

  11. Kiki Bacaro says

    June 22, 2022 at 12:14 pm

    I liked Cafe La Llave!

    No travel plans yet but a baby should be here soon!! Hoping for some mountains, waterfalls and Dollywood though🤷🏼‍♀️
    I love Frappuccinos but iced coffee, not so much!
    My dad is no longer with us but my hubby would love them:)

  12. Elsa Villar says

    June 23, 2022 at 7:11 am

    This is going to be a wonderful summer, my grandson is coming to spend the summer with us in the farm.
    I don’t like iced coffee at all.
    My son would love the socks and wear them.

  13. Carie says

    June 23, 2022 at 11:53 am

    Staycation this year! It works for me, flights, stays & gas are soo expensive.
    My favorite es un cafecito La Llave.
    I enjoy trying my daughters cold brews etc but just trying them is enough for me because I’m a truest, Cafecito all day always!!!
    And not to be selfish but those socks are mine, all mine!!!
    #BeLikeMarta 💋

  14. Carie says

    June 23, 2022 at 11:58 am

    “I liked Cafe La Llave!”
    💚🇨🇺☕️🗝💚
    @qban_piggy

  15. ALYSA GIORGETTI says

    June 23, 2022 at 12:24 pm

    We had fabulous plans to travel Europe, unfortunately they fell through. Our plan B was Yellowstone. We were not disappointed! Also searched out Manhattan, Montana, (nothing like NYC). I was on quest to follow the path of my great grandparents as they pioneered and scratched out a living in their sod hut. Didn’t find any sod huts as new homes replaced them and are astronomically expensive.
    Regarding cold coffee. Hot coffee in the morning girl.
    My Dad would love those socks if he were still living because he would wear them to honor you. I would have to give them to my Sicilian husband. He just got an espresso machine and is obsessed. He loves that Italian brand of espresso that starts with L and has a couple of ZZs. I think Café la LLave would blow his socks off.

    • Nicholas says

      June 25, 2022 at 7:35 am

      My big plans are touring with my family Northern California and Oregon, which I’m in the middle of right now. As a Miami guy, THIS is exotic.

      I do like cold coffee drinks, but for dire needs nothing can outdo café cubano!

      My dad would indeed like those socks.

  16. Natalia Mojica says

    June 23, 2022 at 2:11 pm

    Sin duda comenzamos bien este verano , con toda la Actitud bebiendo Café la Llave , Disfrutar de la Familia , creo que les gustas más a lo jóvenes el café frío , y a papa le encantaría esos socks y muchos cortaditos , coladas .

  17. Joe Titone says

    June 25, 2022 at 6:45 am

    1) walking in the forest with friends
    2) yes
    3) yes

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