We decided to pursue the cultural experience, and go to a Christmas Tree Farm for our Christmas Tree. We possibly chose one of the wetter Saturdays in December, but we went prepared, and stayed reasonably dry.
On some rolling hills over the back of their house, they've grown rows of Christmas trees, and you take your saw, and your trolley, and go pick yourself one. Then, it is shaken, presumably to clean it up, and bound, and there was a Boy Scout troup on hand to help carry it to your car and tie it on top. We had rearranged the seats in our amazing van so we just sat the tree inside.
We're even going to try and buy a star for the top (our Christmas Tree back home still doesn't have a star, because we never saw one we liked...).
Surprisingly, the scent from the tree is really subtle, but really nice. I also like having a front window that we can have the tree in, so people can see the tree from the outside.
A winter christmas will always be remembered.
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