Lobby Clean Up from Festival of Trees

After helping to set up the lobby at the Festival of Trees, we thought it might be fun and interesting to help take it all down. We headed to the South Towne Expo center one more time, at 9:30 p.m. and waited until we could begin the work.

I'd thought setting up the lobby was hard work, and it was; but this was more labor intensive.

We had to wrap the trees in saran wrap, and it needed to be tight, so we had to do it once and then again really tight. We dragged the trees to the pallets and secured them for use next year.

We were there until 2:00 a.m. and I was exhausted when it was said and done.

My favorite part of this was seeing all the trees that had been on display and purchased, being wrapped and prepared to be delivered to the purchasers of the trees.

Festival of Trees Decorating

One way I stay busy (as if I need to add another way to my life) is from Meetup.com. I belong to a couple of groups, one of which is a volunteer group. One of the activities I joined was decorating this year's Festival of Trees Lobby. It was a lot of fun and a lot of work. I will definitely do it again next year.

We arrived in the morning to a very cold building where trucks were pulling into the main building from the opposite side and setting up their trees. Tables and walls went up in a matter of minutes. There were volunteers from all sorts of groups. It was pretty impressive to see.

Heather, the coordinator for PCMC, helped direct us to the pallets holding the saran wrapped Christmas trees. We pulled them off the pallets and 'fluffed' them up. After some fluffing, we placed and arranged them onto the large platforms.

We were all pretty tired when it was all completed, but it was really fun. I was so happy to have my mom with me.

Here are some of the pictures I took between working on trees: