This year, we decided to visit the houses listed on the BuzzMontgomery website. These are our pictures from that tour. We also came across a few others on our trek. The first few we saw in Millbrook were okay, but mostly white lights. We like the big, gawdy, colorful Christmas light displays. In fact, Lauren came up with a perfect description for the displays we like: a modge-podge of colorful mumbo-jumbo . The next houses in Prattville were okay, but not worth trying to get a picture.
We were beginning to wonder if we would find anything that would get us excited. Then we got to Montgomery and things began to change.
This was the house on Crouson Street in Highland Gardens. It was a cute little cottage with lots of lights (althought, not as many colorful ones as we would like), but the NOEL on the roof made it one of the contenders for the night. Then we headed to Dalraida and hit the jackpot!
This is the Gemette’s house at 3581 Dalraida Parkway in Montgomery. It almost left me speechless!
It even had a Santa handing out candy on the front yard (not the owner!). The owners were off to the side with some friends sitting around a fire. I LOVED these lights! There were lights on the ground, lights on the roof, lights on the side yard, lights on the trees, lights connecting the trees to the house, even lights back behind where the owners were sitting by the fire. I knew it would be hard to be beat. We then left for one of the classic Christmas light houses in Montgomery: 2128 Boultier Street.
This house has been putting on a show for over 30 years and is located near the campus of Alabama State University. It is a very small house with a very small yard filled with enough Christmas lights and decorations for a whole block! He even has a box for collections to help pay for the increased electric bill that occurs with all these lights. Last year we found a house that Lauren dubbed the “Toomer’s Corner” house because of the way they just threw the lights around the trees. We stopped by this year and it wasn’t quite the same. I think they decided to put more time into it. It is located just off Ware’s Ferry Road near Alabama Christian Academy.
It was 10:00 pm, so we decided to put off our last few houses until Thursday night. We visited the house in Eastern Forest in Montgomery with the lights that blink to music that you tune in on the radio in your car. Unfortunately, I did not get any decent pictures. This first picture below is from another house in that neighborhood that does a smaller version of the light show. The picture below on the right was taken on our way to Eclectic for another similar light show. This picture is on a lawn that is probably two acres long and is filled with lights.
We made it to 83949 Tallassee Highway for the light show, but also was unable to get decent pictures. We left soon and realized that the light shows really are not our favorites and we are more attracted to the Alabama Redneck form of Christmas lights. On the way home, we happened upon this little treasure.
In the end, the house on Dalraida was the big winner. If you have the opportunity to be in Montgomery, Alabama, it would be worth your while to visit that house during the Christmas season.
Consider this my Christmas gift to you all! May you all be blessed and remember that this is the time to celebrate the wonderful gift given to us in the form of the baby, Jesus, the Christ.
Merry Christmas!
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