The Hunt for the Perfect Tree

 

On Sunday Jennifer and her boyfriend, Adam drove up from Niagara region and we all met at Stu and Heajin's place.  We are on the hunt for the perfect Christmas Tree for Stu and Heajin's apartment.  We have passed down all of our decorations to them so they are all ready to get on the search.  We headed up to Drysdale's Tree Farm and WOW.  There must have been 500 vehicles in the parking lot.  They had tractors pulling hay wagons, horses pulling hay wagons, dogs pulling carts, stuff for sale, Santa, food stands, music, you name it and it was there.  What a booming business they were doing.  

We rode a wagon out into the fields of trees and then walked around searching for that elusive perfect tree.

But we found it and with the help of Stu's dogs and our trusty hatchet we managed to drop it in its tracks.  Actually after being hacked at for about 15 mins it finally just gave up and fell over.

We headed back to Stu and Heajin's where our decorations found a good home. 

This is Heajin's first Canadian Christmas and we hope that she enjoyed her day.  We are glad that they will carry on the tradition of going for their own tree.   This was something that we have done with Stu and Jen for the past twenty years.  When they  would young they used to whine about going.  It was too cold or they were too tired or just too.  But we always dragged them out.  When they got older they would call and ask us to wait until they got home before we went for the tree.  Now Stuart and Heajin can carry on the tradition and maybe one day with their children.

Hope everyone has done all their shopping and are ready to relax and enjoy the lead up to the big day.   

13 more sleeps to Florida.

Until next time - safe travels.