They seem so simple, but, they’re also a little hard to understand. I absolutely love my fiber optic Christmas decorations! My mom bought me a mini fiber optic Christmas tree about seven years ago, and it’s still working and one of my favorite decorations! I remember the first year we got it, Patrick would lie on the couch and just stare at it for hours! That is why I used to always call it our ‘psychedelic tree’! Ha! And I also never could remember the term, ‘fiber optic’! I used to know a guy whose father worked for a company that laid fiber optic cables all over the world! I was fascinated by it then, and I still am today. I wonder, though, are those cables the same as what makes my little Christmas tree so pretty? And the really confusing part, to me, is that information is actually passed along those cables! I can see, sort of, how the colored lights are shot out the end of the cable in the Christmas decorations, but, information? How on earth does that work? It’s really just amazing technology, if you ask me!