Andrew came home from work one day and said to me lets take the kids to the Festival of Trees. So later on that week we all got into the van drove to the South town expo. Drove around for a good 15 minutes before we found a parking space.
We walk inside and the first thing Marysa says was WOW. It was amazing. The last time I had been to the Festival of Trees was when I was a teenager. It was spectacular. Their where trees everywhere.
Here are a few of the trees that where there these are some of our favorites
I am not sure if you can tell but it is a
BYU U of U tree
This one is made of blown glass
This is one of Andrews favorite. He loves the color purple
This one was a really pretty
girly tree.
There were so many trees that we had to take a break half way through and have a snack
After our snack we we finished looking at the trees. When we were done doing that we headed over to the children's section. There you could buy three tickets for a dollar. They had many different booths. Some of the booths where only on ticket. The kids had a lot of fun here. The girls choose to have their nails done. They also had their face painted.
Marysa had a manicure. She chose 2 different colors.
Azalea also had a manicure she chose one color purple of course.
The three older kids also had face painting done.
I am so glad that we went I thought that it would only take like an hour or so to walk through. We where there for three hours and still did not see everything. What amazed me the most was that every penny spent at the festival of trees went to Primary children's Hospital. Every penny. The money we spent to get into the festival of trees. The food we bought. The kids corner. All the people working there were volunteers. Not sure how much was raised this year, but last year over 1.6 million dollars was raised. The trees were breath taking. The whole experience was uplifting, inspirational, humbling and to quote Marysa Wow.
The festival of trees was a wonderful family experience.
