Christmas Time Is Here...

I love Christmas lights, they're one of my favorite things in the world. I love putting them up, even when it's not Christmas. I like seeing my design all lit up for the first time. I like to see what other people on the street do. I like how they make a simple trip to the store just a little better when I pass a lighted house.

I like how they can turn night into virtual day. I like to go out to neighborhoods, especially here where there's lots of subdivisions, and see all the pretty lighted houses. I'd love to be in a competition. I love going to the lighted things where you pay a fee and drive through miles of elaborate light displays while Christmas music plays. I miss that actually. Back in New York there was one only an hour away. It was great, my parents and I would go down and go out to dinner and then go over and do the drive. A lot of the displays moved, like reindeer jumping over the road. Well, the displays themselves didn't move, but had the illusion there of. Then after you could go to this indian museum free, and it was awesome. They had a thing about the indians, of course, and Christmas around the world, and had a guy playing Santa and a old indian village all set up, with the church and stables and where they ate and lived and a big bonfire out in the center court, and the turrets where they guarded the place. It was very cool. Down here there is one nearby, but it's really expensive. I don't understand why. It'd be worth it if you took a big van full of people, but when it's just three or less, then it's not worth it.