Meteornotes Posted December 31, 2005 Posted December 31, 2005 OK, one of our Christmas traditions is a trip to Hampden, MD for the Christmas lights display. Hampden is a suburb of Baltimore, and one street in the area is known for it's completely over the top light display that everyone on the street participates in. As you'll see, this is a bit more than just putting some lights on your front porch. Anyway, let's go to the visuals! And Electric Light-Up Santa says "One day I will be hit by lightning and grow to 500 feet tall, and wander the land terrorizing everyone and...Oh, sorry...and, um, Merry Christmas and all that stuff." And more random stuff in the yard. This is seriously one amazing display of light up stuff. Random stuff in the yard. OK, this guy's house has more stuff in and on it than all the other houses combined. He must also have the biggest basement ever... We all remember the story where Santa tried to upstage Jesus, so they trapped him inside a giant ball, until his army of fire-breathing penguins rescued him, right? OK, maybe just me... It's a tree. In the tree...Old Bay! Please buy lots and lots of it, as it's mighty yummy. This tree has all sorts of Baltimore-related items hanging all over it. Plus more wacky sculptures. These guys do all sorts of sculptures and metal work every year. This time around it's a crab line-up. Blue light special. We're all familiar with that heartwarming Christmas tale, Jesus and The Gingerbread Men. Up on the rooftops...well, all sorts of stuff... Here's the view you have when you arrive at the famous street. Planes have attempted to land here.
Hattuchili Posted December 31, 2005 Posted December 31, 2005 That looks really nice, Dave! We only have a Christmas house here, with a lot of lights. Normally we havn´t a lot of that stuff here in the neighbourhood! --Sören
Meteornotes Posted January 2, 2006 Author Posted January 2, 2006 The one thing I forgot to mention about all of this is that a lot of the homeowners set up displays inside their homes, and you can actually go in and check them out. They range from just simple trees to a full blown train/tree/lights spectacular at that house with the billion lights on it. They usually only open their houses on weekends, and we went on a Monday night this year, as we wanted to avoid the crowds/traffic. There's often a massive traffic backup going into this neighborhood to look at this display. The most insane light display I have ever seen still belongs to some random house in Simi Valley, CA, that had more lights and stuff in their yard than this display. It was crazy. Sadly, I don't have any pictures of it, and I have no idea if they still do it any more (this was ten years ago), but trust me, it was electric light-up overkill... dt
Shockwave Posted January 2, 2006 Posted January 2, 2006 Holy moly, that's a lot of lights! Must be quite a sight to see it first hand. The most decorations we have are a few fairy lights on the outside of the house.
Chrissie Posted January 2, 2006 Posted January 2, 2006 Wow! Thats alot of lights! I was all confused when u said Hampden.... The Scotland national stadium is called Hampden! Im so blonde! lol
Bubba Z Posted January 2, 2006 Posted January 2, 2006 Very cool Dave. There are two houses near me that battle it out every year to see who can cram the most stuff on their lawns and houses. I would have to agree with you, Where do they put it all after the Holiday's are over. I'll take a ride out tonight and take pictures of the houses if their displays are still up.
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