A Christmas Wonderland
A really magical place to take the tribe to is Christmas Lane in Altadena. The street is Santa Rosa Avenue between Woodbury and AltadenaDrive. For the last 80 years the community has been dressing the giant deodar trees with lights, over 10, 000 to be exact. It really is a spectacular vision driving through blocks and blocks of lit up wonder. Deodars were introduced to California in 1883 by the founder of Altadena who thought the Italian trees to be the most beautiful he had ever seen. He had vision and they truly are lovely.
My daughters and I were taken there last winter as a surprise and it really was worth the drive.
