Burn Your Christmas Tree

There comes a time when every family must part with their beloved Christmas Tree, as was the case this past Sunday evening when we decided it was time to pack up the ornaments and drop the tree off on the curb for its final farewell. However being the funny guy that I am, I decided it would be a hoot to put the tree in the middle of Valencia street so I could watch cars drive by and marvel at this naked Christmas tree growing out of the asphalt. Sure enough it made us all laugh and even stopped a few cars along the way. Of course nothing could keep us away from our game of Tetris for too long so we quickly got back into it and left the tree alone to enjoy more of the city's onlookers.

No more then 15 minutes had past when I heard Dimitri shout "oh shit!" as he threw down the controller and rushed to the window. An orange glow had suddenly filled up the room as the once happy tree was now blazing with flames at least 12 feet high. Apparently some prankster had to one up me and decided to set the tree on fire in the middle of the gall dang street! Man, was it amazing. We all laughed and cheered as the flames burned higher and higher. I even got a little scared and thought it was going to set the whole apartment on fire. Fortunately I had the oracle to capture it all on digital film and we all survived this year's Christmas miracle!

The aftermath...