Our First Winnipeg Christmas Tree - Margaret Ullrich

God, it was cold.



I didn't know it could get that cold.

I didn't know I'd ever be stupid enough to be outdoors in that kind of cold.

I didn't know I'd been stupid enough to marry someone stupid enough to work with people stupid enough to be out in that kind of cold.



It was our first December in Winnipeg.



We had grown up in New York City.  There people went to an empty parking lot