Never Enough Lights
Like most who go to the extreme in decorating, I started out small, like normal people. I remember my parents would decorate a pine tree in the front yard with C9's and put up a nativity scene. The nativity scene still goes out each year. It wasn't until I got married and bought a house that I started doing my own decorations. With our first house I would put some lights on the gutter, maybe a bush or two and around the windows. I'd add a small amount of lights each coming year. At this point I was probably topping out at 2000 lights.
This lasted several years until we moved into our current house. I started out relatively small, just doing the roof lines with your standard icicle lights. The years following I would add more lights until I eventually topped out around 40000.
It wasn't until Christmas 2005 when a friend mailed me the video of Carson Williams famous Wizards Of Winter synchronized light show that I got hooked. I made it my goal to synchronize my lights for the 2006 season. After some research I decided on thehardware and software I was going to use and spent the next 8 months programming varioussongs that I liked and had a good beat.
Each year I try to add a little more to the display. See the What's New page for my current plans.
Why go to one of those parks, pay your $10, just to see a million lights that were thrown in the trees. Anyone can throw lights in the trees. Those places need to upgrade and give you a light show worth seeing. Until that time you can come see my lights and others like them for free.