Free as in Pizza

For more than a decade, my dad’s rigging company has had the job of putting up the Christmas decorations at Pentagon City Fashion Mall. The mall likes to get the decorations in place as soon as possible after Halloween, to maximize the holiday effect on shoppers. We got started on November 9th this year.

It’s sometimes hard to find enough workers to get the job done in the 2-3 night time-frame that the mall asks for. I usually help out on Christmas Tree night, since it’s important to get the whole tree put together in one night. My brother Ned and my friend Mike also worked.

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