Let There Be Lights!

Before we left for our trip to Virginia, a co-worker showed us a newspaper article highlighting (pun intended?) New Jersey's "best-in-state" house with the most Xmas lights. Turns out this house is like 5 minutes away from where we live! So let's check this place out!

Here's a nice shot of most of it. It was really too big for one picture. The lights were all synchronized to put on an hour-long show 3 times a night set to holiday classics.

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We parked in the nearby small town and walked 5 minutes or so to the house. The neighbor's house had this Peanuts themed display and some stats on boards that did not seem to want to photograph at all. The important stat is 135,000 lights which is more than the tree in Rockefeller Plaza!

Just past the Peanuts display was our pal Grumpy Cat! Obviously she was in the Xmas spirit.

I know you can't really watch the show from a photo, but watching all the lights dance around was pretty cool.

The "tree" on the right was like a pixel TV screen it was often showing characters and stuff for whatever song was playing.

There was a calendar posted to let you know when the "shows" were happening. Imagine putting an event calendar outside your house?

This tree was huge! Three stories high at least.

Random wall of snowflakes to border the neighbor's house. Good luck getting any sleep over there!

They had these heat lamps set up over the sidewalk. We didn't think they were on, but after we walked away it got extra cold, so maybe they were on?

Aww! Charity! Of course we donated.

Wonder if the local power company has a holiday party "powered" by these lights? They said it adds about $175 to the power bill to put on the shows.

The house's owner and showrunner Keith came out to hype up the crowd and push the donations. None of which go to fund this show, which he does as kind-of a charity in itself. To introduce the next song he said it took 40 hours to program it, and that was only one song!

 Did i mention the show has flamethrowers? Because yeah, there were flamethrowers. Even though they look "regular" in the picture, the flames were multi-colored, too.

 Tried to step back and show some of the crowd. There were around 50-100 people wandering in and out, maybe more? Didn't get any pictures of the crowd-control Police Officers, but they were around.

Another attempt to show the sidewalk and the crowd. Of course there were no lights in this direction, they are all in the show right over there!

Walking back to the car, we saw a house with this wooden sculpture Rudolph all alone on the porch with ONE light on it. Proving you don't really need 100,000 lights. But yeah the 100,000+ light show was pretty cool and we were glad we went out to see it.