Electricity here is pricey. My family has made Christmas traditions to
make the holidays less 'we miss home and family' and more 'we look
forward to our whacky traditions'. No matter how unlikely it is to see
lights on a house here (maybe 1 in 10 houses or less have lights).... we
still get in the car and sing carols and go looking for lights like
treasure hunting.
Each year it has gotten worse... until this year.
This year we announced to the community to have their lights on tonight
at 7pm and we were going to call it LIGHT NIGHT....
and for the first time EVER, we had traffic jams.
IT was raining hard, and people were out walking with umbrellas through
the mud! A simple little post, 'turn on your lights tonight at 7pm'....
and suddenly... the place was lit up!!!
I got such a huge laugh out of realizing we had actual traffic in our
community.
Plus, thanks to LED christmas lights, more houses had lights than ever
before! In 7 years of living here, tonight was the best lights we've
ever seen in this country!
I love the people of this community, there are times when I just want to
give them a huge hug.
