Christmas Tree Adventures

We got a Christmas tree last weekend! It's the first ever real Christmas tree for Travis and so far it's been an adventure. We got it from Sobeys and the guy selling them subjected us to 'high pressure Christmas tree sales." He picked out the best one for us and it's a good thing he did cause they were all tied up so we had no idea what we were looking for. Apparently when they're all tied you have to pick a tree according to it's height and weight, heavy trees are fuller than light trees. So we got home to realize that my tree stand wasn't in the box with the decorations so instead of going back to my storage space to search for the stand we went to Home Hardware and bought a new one. The guy who sold us the tree cut off the end for us so all we had to do now was get it into the stand and decorated....easier said than done. Well actually we did get it into the stand and cut off the ties and decorated without incident...the trouble came afterwards. We had just finished decorating it and getting dressed up to go out for dinner and were sitting on the couch admiring how perfect it was, well Travis had his computer in his lap and I was sitting on the couch beside him admiring the tree and it's obvious lean.....when 30 seconds later it started to fall towards us! Travis jumped up, threw the computer in my lap and in his dress shirt and tie, caught the tree before it fell. Nevertheless water was spilled all over the floor and all our perfectly placed decorations were now not so perfect. So I'm holding the tree and Travis is up on a stool, 10 minutes before we were supposed to be at dinner, in his shirt and tie hammering a nail into the windowsill and tying the tree to the nail with fishing line. Thank goodness it was still standing when we got home. I've been getting the speech about keeping it well watered since before we got it. I guess that's the 'advantage' of dating a firefighter (just kidding honey!). I've been forgetting to check the tree anyways, good thing I'm dating a firefighter. It's drinking an unbelievable amount of water but it seems to have slowed down over the last two days. I'll post pictures when I remember to get my camera out of the car. Remember how Travis was aka Scrooge last week? Well on Sunday we went to the Christmas store in Banff and he was the one buying ornaments for the tree. Aha! So much for Scrooge!!