How are we going to get a Christmas tree? Where will we find one? How will we get said tree from wherever to our house without owning car?
We puzzled through those questions many times. We even came to the usual solution of "we'll just buy a car!" until that opened the same Pandora's box of riddles that topic always does... And I need a tree now.
Then hooray! In a cab ride home from the grocery store we spot a tree "lot" up the street from our house next to our local taxi stand. The game plan: walk to the trees, pick one out, pay random cab driver extra to strap the tree to his car and take us home. That should work, right? Let's do this.
It's a Christmukkah miracle. The tree sellers had a pickup of course, complete with two kids who couldn't have been older than 7 to ride in the back, and they brought the tree (and us - in the cab - Ellie sooooo wanted to ride in the back with the other kids. Sorry lil Americano) to our house. Jason tipped them handsomely.
It feels fantastic to have our tree up. This is starting to really feel like home.
PS Christmas trees are crazy expensive here. We chose a Douglas Fir (900 pesos) over the preferred Fraser Fir (a loco 2300 pesos!!) for obvious reasons.
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| Jack's preferred mode of transportation. That is their identical "you're taking a picture now Mom?" face. |
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| My girl. 3 going on 13 |
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| Hurry up Jack! |
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| Christmas trees ahead! |
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| Hard to tell but that is a maybe 5? 6? year old girl just standing in the back of the pickup, with our tree, as they drive us home. |
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| Yay |
Hi Michele! I'm curious about something... How do you manage to keep the tree standing up? We don't ever buy real trees in Argentina so this is new for me, and always have the same doubt when watching US movies... BTW I'm Ariadna, from Starcom ARG, nice to meet you :)
ReplyDeleteHey Ariadna! We use a Christmas Tree Stand. They are very common in the US, basically a water pot for a tree - ranging from a simple bowl with pins (that bore into the tree) to more complicated models that help keep the tree straight...
ReplyDeleteWe brought ours with from the US to Mexico. When we lived in Australia we couldn't find one so Jason created one out of a bucket and nails. Not pretty... Is this our million peso idea?!?
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=pd_sl_2bmeidkycv_b?rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Akrinner+tree+stand&keywords=krinner+tree+stand&ie=UTF8&psrk=christmas+tree+stand
Oh, it's pretty much the same system we use here with our fake little trees but in XL size. Good to know! Thank you!!! :)
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