One of our longstanding Christmas Eve traditions has been to drive around and look at decorations. We would make it a contest between neighborhoods and try to seek out the very best in lighting magnificence. Our two favorite places turned out to be very different. One had every sort of inflatable, lightable, animatronic, cutesy, gaudy, cheesy, decoration imaginable, to the point where it was just plain fun. They had a horseshoe driveway and you drove in, circled around and drove out. There was a place to stop and put in a donation for electricity. We would often make two or three trips around.
The other place was the polar opposite. It was just lights, very tastefully strung on every single corner of the house, on every shrub, and up every main and secondary branch of every tree. Then it was set to music and controlled by computer. We would sit in front of the house and watch the show. It was jaw dropping.
The second house went on the market this year and I drove past a couple of week ago to see if they were still doing the lights. There was a large cherry-picker in the yard to take the lights off the trees and presumably the house.
Alas, another thing we love falls by the wayside.
I saw them first!
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