
Yeah, there’s this house in Columbia, no where near mine thank you, that I guess is occupied by the Griswalds. For about the last 20 years they go all out with exterior lumination. It’s a little freaky, I mean there is a nativity scene and the baby Jesus doesn’t get put out til Christmas Morning, but you can’t help but do a drive-by every year.
Here’s a shot I purposely took out of focus, I think it looks awesome. If you don’t, then you’re a (Is anybody here Jewish?) fucking Jew.
When they started doing this their kids were, um, still kids, but it’s amazing how they keep this up year after year, even as their kids move into their mid-twenties. Yeah, those “kids” must still be helping them… or they better be.
That said, one of these years from now, they’ll eventually stop this all-out exterior lumination and maybe just have a few bushes lit up, or maybe none at all. That’ll be sad. I would say it’ll be the day Christmas dies, but with all the rampant commercialization of Christmas we have now, it’s already on life support.