Yesterday we went to the Festival Of Trees. Each year businesses, groups, and people donate decorated Christmas trees. Once inside the Festival area, you can purchase raffle tickets - they just give you a sheet of them. You can then drop individual tickets into little buckets in front of your favorite trees and try to take them home.
The trees really are unusual and fun. This year there was a tree donated by a hardware store decorated in duct tape and hung with ornaments of small WD40 cans and paint prushes. There was a Doctor Suess tree with a red and white striped hat on top, with bright neon fluffs and large colorful books nestled in the branches. One tree was decorated in brightly painted light bulbs, one in ladies' handbags, one in gift certificates. A few had trains making their way up to the top instead of garland, and one had bright yellow toy trucks as ornaments. One had sheet music and tickets to a holiday concert!
We let Nick have the raffle tickets, and he was VERY happy randlomly finding buckets to stick them into. He kept running back to us saying "more? More tickets?" Of course he had no idea WHY he was putting the tickets into the buckets...
Santa was there, too. We figured we'd pop over and see how he was doing. I led Nick over, who obediently walked over, gave a wave and said "Hi Santa!" Sant reached over to lift him onto his lap... and then Nick started screaming. So no Santa photos THIS year.
3 comments:
Maybe next year you could just act like you're taking a photo of Nick and Nate, and then have Santa sneak over and get in the background of the photo?!?!
Ah, Festivus for the Rest of Us! I like the idea of a tree raffle. You get an already decorated tree -- now if htey would only add already decorated presents to put underneath it! Too bad Nick is afraid of St Nick -- maybe next year. But you WILL take holiday pictures anyway right? Like in the snow? In front of the tree? Opening presents? Right?!
PS I looooove Nate in the blue boa -- divine!
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