Winterhaven

So this is super cheesy, but I thought I'd share the pictures.  We have a neighborhood called "Winterhaven" not very far away.  It's a long-running tradition to have the most extensive Christmas lights display in the city.  It used to be mandated by the homeowner's association, but they've since relaxed those rules.  Still about 90% of the houses participate, and many of them go way over the top.  Excessive, but fun for the kids.  It's actually nice to walk around, there are plenty of families, people giving away cocoa and cider, horse-drawn carriages, and more Santa.  We brought the wagon:

What's most fun is all the themes.  You see Disney themes, Harry Potter, all kinds of stuff.  Here is a Christmas Story theme.  See the leg lamp in the window, and the boy with his tongue stuck to the pole:

The Nutcracker:

Some Horses:

These next three are all one display:

More Horses:

This is one of our favorites, a display all built around the 12 Days of Christmas.  What's cool about it is they kept adding one more piece each year, this year they got to 12 drummers drumming, so it is finished.  Not too many pictures but what's funny is the creative interpretations.  Four calling birds were crushed into a phone booth making calls, Seven swans swimming were jumping off a diving board on the roof, Eight maids-a-milking were moms and babies breastfeeding, Ten lords-of leaping were parachuters jumping out of a train, and the pipers piping were all plumbers laying pipe (complete with plumbers crack!)  Very funny:

Here's Santa and Mrs. talking to the kids.  Santa tried climbing into our wagon:

This is a cool gingerbread house:

Beach theme, with tiki torches, surfboards, and sand covering the entire lawn:

Underwater theme:

The Grinch and Santa in an old west showdown.  The had the Ennio Morricone theme music from The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly playing:

This is extravagant:

This guys has the most popular display.  He has a fountain that shoots water along with music and lights to the beat of music, which changes every year, but all the lights in the trees and the house go along with the music too.  It's like something you would see at Epcot Center:

I told you.  Cheesy right?