A Hunting We Will Go

Last Saturday we packed up the kids and headed to White pass to hunt for the "perfect" Christmas tree. We just kept driving until we came to snow, because you have to have snow for the right Christmas tree hunting mood. Then we turned off the highway and onto a winding snow covered dirt road. Melissa commented, "I hope we don't get stuck." To which Joe replied, "We can't get stuck dear, this thing has 4 wheel drive. We can drive through anything." As we rounded one of the curves we began to drive sideways. Melissa and the kids all let out little shrieks of fear. We stopped and tried again and we slid closer to the edge of the road. Now, at this point Joe, being the thoughtful husband that he is, had everyone else get out of the car (because as he said if he goes down he didn't want to take us all with him). We promptly exited the vehicle. He tried again and moved closer to rhe edge while Melissa forgot to breathe. Was she to watch her wonderful husband slide off the road and meet his fate (not to mention demolish her new car which she so loved). Just when they thought all was lost one of the onlookers came to assist and helped push them out of the rut. I should mention there were two truckloads of about 6 or more able bodied men just sitting there waiting for us to get off the road. Hmmm... The very kind gentleman who helped us was actually futher behind them loading his christmas tree. So we parked it and went hunting.

We looked and looked and looked... Finally when the kids were crying because they were cold and wet we decided to just pick one and cut it down. We figured out there weren't actually any "perfect" ones out there, unless we did as some other people did and cut the top off a huge tree. Since we aren't into breaking the law we decided to go with a tree that was just right for us.

We were just going to stick it in a bucket on the porch until we had more energy to put it up but, when we got home we were so excited we just couldn't wait!