carriage, former larry snyder had the honor of providing the tree after winning the national christmas tree association's annual contest. will be featured in the blue room of the white house and is quite an honor. in addition to their arrival of the white house christmas tree is a capitals christmas tree also arriving today. the 60-foot blue spruce making the 2,000-mile journey all the way from carson national forest in new mexico to the u.s. capital, the cross-country tour included 31 stops across nine states from a professional truck driver delivered by capital tree today. he joins me now. that was quite a trip, had precious cargo you are carrying. >> i sure did. >> dana: how did you get selected to do this and what does it mean to you? >> wilbanks was selected through insurance companies, i heard about it last spring, and then we selected out of our company three drivers selected out of our management team is what we ended up doing and we used a