Holiday Plans

Ski trip failed. The weather was too awful to drive in, so we ended up staying home and diving into holiday decorating for 3 days straight.

We decided to forgo a traditional Christmas tree lot this year to save money, and started at Target's garden department. Interestingly, every single tree was bound and left in piles everywhere we looked. There was no magic in that, so we headed to Home Depot. One look at their lot had us running as far away as possible! It was crowded beyond belief and felt more like a flea-market than a holiday specialty lot.

We continued our adventure by grabbing deliciously flavored coffees from The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf (dark chocolate orange- yum!), and ended up in the exact place I kind of knew we'd get our tree from all along. It was a small lot very near our home, and we chose a Silvertip tree which cost more than I think we've ever spent on a tree in all of our years together. Our initial money-saving plan failed, but all of our plans tend to end up bit skewed, so we just went with it.

The weekend was definitely not what we had planned, but it ended well and we now have a ... very interesting tree ;)