This post should be full of idyllic photos of us getting our Christmas tree, but instead I will treat you to an iPhone photo of us driving through the very mediocre drive-thru Xmas lights display put on by the local parks system. (We can all later discuss the irony of an organization that encourages preserving our ecosystem coordinating an event that puts hundreds of people idling their carbon-monoxide producing vehicles in the middle of a national forest.)
Anyway, the reason we ended up there was that on both Saturday and Sunday we attempted to get a Christmas tree, and as we got within a five-mile radius of the Christmas tree farm, Mother Nature sat back with a big belly laugh and threw torrential rain in our general direction.
By Sunday night we owed the kids some sort of holiday experience, so we waited in this endless line to see Christmas lights in the shape of mostly totally un-holiday like stuff, like Beauty and the Beast and Alice in Wonderland.
Next weekend we are getting a tree, weather conditions be damned.