Christmas Card Lane

Yesterday we had a couple of boys from St George show up at our house. I'm not sure if they were trying to escape the Utah cold or if they were actually looking for Alycia. Trevor Crowley and Alycia met fairly early in the Semester and were pretty much going steady a few months later. With Trevor was a boy named Travis Skelton. Travis is a descendant from Dudley Leavitt so he is certainly a good guy. It had been a very long drive for them fighting New Years traffic most of the way and they looked tired when they arrived.

Lisa had dinner ready for them so when they got here so we immediately sat them down and fed them. After dinner we took them for a tour of Christmas Card lane. That was a bit disappointing since about half the decorations have been taken down or weren't on. A long time ago a woman who works for Disney made a giant Christmas card out of two sheets of plywood. She was an artist and she hand painted her plywood to look exactly like a giant Christmas card. Within a few years nearly every house in the neighborhood had similar decorations. Now it has evolved into much more than just "cards" and has become quite famous. I'd say that in the entire neighborhood perhaps two or three houses don't decorate. They have many animated displays, electric railroads and some very ingenious decorations. People come from all over to see them and even tour buses come through. Unfortunately, you can't wait until too long after Christmas. This neighborhood is only a few blocks away from us.

I then drove them through a street in another neighbor hood. What they do on this street is string lights across the street to the house opposite them on the street. Not only do all of the houses participate but one house might connect to three or four houses on the opposite side. There are so many lights that it looks like you're driving through a tunnel. It is a little depressing to see all of the lights disappear. I usually take down our lights and tree on the Saturday following New Years day.