Bee and I wasted no time this year getting our Christmas tree up and decorated. We got a fake one at the PX (Post Exchange) for a great deal the day after Thanksgiving when all the crazy people come out to shop. I am more a fan of real Christmas tree but those are hard to come by in Korea.
As it is our first Christmas together we had to not only get our Christmas tree this year but also ornaments to decorate it with. At the same time we got the tree we also got a set of different red and gold ornaments and some white bulbs just for flavor.We set the tree up and put the lights and ornaments on and it looked beautiful, it was still missing a little spice though. I have been sitting on the idea for a little while now. It was an idea I stole from one of my older brothers but in my family we share things so it is all good (thanks Lost Boy).
A few months back my Battalion had a field exercise where we practiced our living-and-working-out-of-a-tent skills, "fieldcraft" as they fondly call it. We were fed MREs (meals ready-to-eat) for the week we were out there and most MREs come with a tiny bottle of Tabasco sauce in them. Lost Boy had the idea to use the little bottles as Christmas ornaments. Awesome! Sense I do not use the Tabasco to flavor my food I decided to collect them for Christmas. I also found a few slightly bigger, but still small, bottles of Franks Red Hot somewhere else that I thought would add a little variety to the mix.
After we placed the traditional ornaments I went to the cupboard and pulled out my stash of 1/8th ounce bottles of sauce. I think I collected about a dozen bottles in all. Bee helped me attach the wire ornaments hangers to them and then we strategically placed them on our tree. The next evening I found a box of candy canes Bee had bought and I thought they would complement our tree nicely so we added them to the tree as well.
Bee loves popcorn and for our first Christmas together has long said that we would be stringing popcorn garland together come Christmas time. So a few days after setting up our tree we strung and hung several popcorn garlands together for a family activity; the white rope of the exploded kernels flowing across the pine branches forming the finishing touches of our first Christmas tree.
What a beautiful Christmas tree. What a beautiful time together!
Merry Christmas!
Beautiful tree! Just the right amount of spice and light. :)
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