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The Christmas season has blossomed here in St George.  One of the 1st things to come around is the Jubilee of Trees.  We had several missionaries tell us about it as a "don't miss" event (among many) so we took the time to go visit it.  Only lasted a few days.  It is a display of all the Christmas trees you could possibly imagine in one place over at the St George Convention Center.  It was really something to see.

Trees of all sizes and shapes, decorated to the fullest extent and most of them, if not all, are for sale.  And the prices are not to be believed.  Not something I'd take home but unbelieveable.  Some of these went for thousands of dollars!  You buy the whole display when you buy it.

The area that had Christmas centerpieces had a lot of these candles that intrigued me.  These aren't candles.  The flame is a fragile center thing that kind of flops around with a bright lite in the middle that looks, for all intents and purposes, like a flame, but isn't.  Never seen one of these before.  They had a lot of these there.  They are really neat.  They would have lasted about 10 seconds in my house with my kids....

 

Santa's Mailroom.  Had to get that for Arlene.

 

They had a couple of model railroads there.  The scale of the downtown mainstreet was pretty well done.  Note the American flag on top of the building?  That was a digital sign that was flashing and changing.  That was pretty interesting.

 

...more trees...

 

Of course, Arlene always likes the purple trees.

 

They had an entire booth filled with small trees.  Some of these belonged to some relatives of those that work at the ROC with us.  Really nice stuff.

 

There was an entire booth filled with wreaths.  Some of them were even affordable.

 

This tree had an interesting theme.  It was all about lighthouses.

 

How could you not have a Harry Potter tree?  I couldn't get a good shot of this tree.  It was very popular and I could never get a clean shot of it.  Sorry.

 They had a big dining area in the middle and live entertainment the whole time we were there.  Lots of stuff to look at, eat and browse through.  We had a great time getting ready for Christmas.  Not even December yet!