This year we broke our annual Christmas tree tradition. Instead of going out to a farm somewhere and cutting it down we opted not to do that. We couldn’t find a good place near us in Virginia and out original plan was to just go back to the same tree farm in Maryland that we have been going to for years. However on the Sunday morning that we were supposed to go it was raining outside and cold making outside miserable. I manged to convince nicole that we should go check out the local home depot or some other tree lot near by and just get a tree from there. Nicole wasn’t thrilled by the idea but caved to the convenience and the fact the tree would cost half as much. We ended up at the local home depot going through all of the trees. Nicole was having a hard time picking out a tree since she’s never gotten a tree from a lot before and wasn’t used to the fact the the trees were all squished. After looking at a couple dozen trees we finally picked out a tree. It was definitely a bit more charlie brown than our usual trees but I liked him and it was a hell of a lot easier getting him home from home depot than driving all the way from the tree farm.
The one hiccup we ran into when trying to decorate our tree was that we could only get 3 of the 6 strands of lights to work. Unfortunately we figured this out at 9PM on sunday night. So nicole went out all over the place looking for somewhere that was both open at had christmas lights. She tried cvs, then the Harris Teeter, finally she got in her car and went to the wallgreens in clareden to find the lights. While Nicole was out driving around Ross stayed home and went through each of the bulbs testing them and was able to get 2 more of the strands working in the time it took her to come back.
