Christmas arrived early Thursday morning for the Outlets at San Clemente.
A truck pulled up to the mall to deliver a 100-foot white fir fresh from the Mt. Shasta area of Northern California.
Crews quickly carted the tree through the mall’s passageways and lifted it with a crane into place in the central courtyard. It will be decorated over the next couple of weeks with more than 18,000 multicolored lights and 10,000 bows and ornaments.
The tree is advertised as the tallest live-cut tree in Orange County.
The switch lighting the Christmas tree will be thrown in a celebration on Nov. 18, launching the holiday season at the outlets.
Not quite ready for yuletide thoughts? The mall still has up its Halloween display for photo ops.
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