I must say I was slightly disappointed in the tree when we opened it and almost wonder if the wrong one was sent.  It certainly does not look like a blue spruce - no bluish hue to the needles at all.  Just a regular spruce.  Also, it took forever to make it look like a tree as the branches were all completely flat. 
 The lights were to be clear and I guess they are, but more of a yellowish white when we had expected a cool clear white.  There are lots of lights for the size of the tree, though.  For the price, I expected it to be fuller.