My mother sent me an e-mail with a story and video about some amazing Christmas lights. Apparently, this guy lives near Cinncinati, Ohio and his display uses 45,000 lights. It attracted so much traffic and caused so many accidents that the police asked him to shut it down over certain hours. Instead, he started charging by carload to pay for three police officers to direct traffic.
If you have time, watch his newer video from 2010. It takes 15 minutes to view, but highlights such songs as "The Carol of the Bells," and "Jingle Bells," among others.
While searching for links to the Holdman Light Display (above), I also found this interesting light display. It looks like it is set up indoors, which kind of detracts from the fun of driving past, but still looks entertaining.
I have fond memories of my parents taking us kids on a drive through a St. Louis neighborhood where the houses all had moving Christmas decorations (like a Jack-in-the-box jumping out of his box and Snowmen inflating and deflating). This was back in the day, so their displays were stupendous then. Plus, we would always drive through the story of the nativity at the National Shrine of Our Lady of the Snows in Belleville, Illinois.
I also remember a house, near the airport in Chicago, where they had three trees all decorated. In the first story was a really wide base tree. Then, in the second story a tree slightly less wide and finally, on the roof, a small tree. The trees all gave the impression of one huge tree stretching through the whole house and out to the roof. It was amazing!
These are great memories. Nowadays, the memories I'm making with my boys are of calling them to the computer to watch the light shows on You Tube. Ha! Still fun, but not quite the same, no?
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