Christmas Debriefing, Part 3

We decided not to buy the tree after just searching at one location.  Instead, we drove about 20 minutes to a large tree lot down in Emeryville.  Emeryville is a great little city just west of Oakland and south of Berkeley.  It is home to a fairly large number of box stores.  And Pixar's headquarters is there.

The Emeryville lot had two attractions that we thought would appeal to our 3-year-old:  a petting zoo and a large jumpy-slide, easily visible from the road.

The jumpy-slide was, for some unknown reason (since it hadn't rained in several days) really wet.  It was tough to climb up -- both for my son and for me.  And it was somewhat disgusting to slide down.

Here's a few pictures:

The petting zoo was a big hit.  They charged a few bucks just to let our son pet and feed the animals.  Our son dropped his handful of food rather quickly when he was approached by four persistent goats.

Here's the chicken:

And here's the goats.  Note - bowl of food still in hands here, but it didn't stay there for long...

The other notable thing about this location was that they had spray-painted several trees with odd colors.  We didn't find that particularly appealing.  But someone must like it.