Remember college nostalgia? Think back... Remember that feeling that your college town was the best place for (insert everyday item)? We all have them. College Station has this little Italian restaurant with THE best cannelloni; it has Layne's with THE best chicken strips and it has Mr. G's with awesome pizza (the best title goes to Gino's East in Chicago). For Luke and me it also has great Christmas trees. Our first Christmas with Jack we ventured to the Farm Patch and picked out an awesome tree -- it had a citrus smell, was a deep green, had hearty and sturdy branches -- it was the PERFECT tree. We have talked about the tree since that Christmas and like any good fish story the tree's legend grew with each telling. After our tree debacle last year (did you know they can be infested with mosquitos??? well they can and ours was) we decided this year we would go in search of a repeat perfect tree. We loaded the boys up and headed to College Station.
Now before you freak about the trip from our house Aggieland is an easy one hour trip. Our goal was to pick out a tree, have a little lunch (can you say Frittela??) and head home. The trip was scheduled for the day after Thanksgiving and we hoped was the start of a new Pearson tradition. We arrived at the Farm Patch only to discover that the sought after tree type had not arrived from it's home in Oregon and was not scheduled to arrive for another 9 days. After toying with the idea of making a return trip we decided that four hours in the car was ridiculous for a tree and purchased one that was available.
Now, December 17th -- we hope the tree makes it to Christmas Day. With the amount of needles dropping daily it appears that things will go down to the wire. Two thumbs up for us!! What did we learn from all this? Surely you don't expect me to tell you that we will buy a fake tree or that we'll pick a tree from a closer tree lot?? No, no, no. We're going to call the Farm Patch before we drive to make sure their shipment of Grand Firs has arrived...then we'll drive.
2 comments:
I miss the smell of a fresh Christmas tree, but I do enjoy my prelit fake. :) It's so much less hassle and less mess. But, I do enjoy when I get to smell a fresh one. If we had a farm around here where they would actually cut it down (rather than buying it already cut) then I would really consider it. And I also didn't know you could have a mosquito infested Christmas tree!!! Aaaahhhh!!!
Get a fakey!!!
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