The 2011 Season was amazing and went way beyond my expectations, we had hundreds of people see the show this year and at one time on Dec. 23rd there were 18 cars in the driveway viewing it at once! The take down is now about 90% complete and will be finished next weekend. I would just like to thank all of you who came out to see the show and told your friends about it as well, and especially the Townsend Times, who wrote an amazing article which alerted many about the show. As for next year it will be bigger and better with about 12,000 more lights !!!!!! that makes for a lot of off season work for me but the show should be looking sweet in November. Some initial plans include 3 leaping arches, all of the windows being not just white and red, but also green, and adding to our mini tree collection by creating 8 more RGW mini trees which will form a small “grove”. I’m sure there will be more added but that is what is planned for now. I will probably make about 3 more controllers to help power the new features and also do some heavy duty electrical reconfiguration. Well that should keep me busy ’till November until them you can checkout the progress here or on our Facebook page, and if you want to remember how the show looked you can always check out the videos from the show!

The Polling is done for the 2011 season the results can be seen here

Want to see a song next year ?? Comment it below or email be at christmas@christmasintownsend.com

The tree is up and the show is on!!! Invite your friends and come over. See the pictures below

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Here are the songs that will be displayed this year. There may be a mid-season addition but for now this is the lineup.

Your A Mean One Mr.Grinch – Thurl Ravenscroft *

Mary’s Boy Child – Boney M

Trim Up the Tree – The Grinch Who Stole Christmas Soundtrack *

Wizards in Winter – Trans-Siberian Orchestra

I’ll be Home for Christmas – Josh Groban *

Christmas Cannon -Trans-Siberien Orchastra

O Holy Night – Martina McBride *

Christmas Sarajevo 12/24 – Trans-Siberian Orchestra

Sandstorm – Darude *

* -Indicates New Song for 2011

Days 3-5

The rest of the display has been put up including the megatree, which poses some issues, but was ultimately put up. All of the lower bushes and inflatables also have been put up. The lights were also all hooked up to the controllers. Pictures can be seen below.

Day 2

Over the past day about 1600 lights were added to the house, mainly the windows and the balcony area. This brings the current light total to 6,625, but there is much more to come this Wednesday and the upcoming weekend. Most all of the ladder work is also done, leaving just the lower bushes, minitrees and of course the Megatree. The work is coming along well and should look great for opening night!!

Day 1

Over the past two days about 5,000 lights were put up on the house. Mainly the high and hard to reach lights such as the dormers and icicle style lights that go on the gutters. This years icicle light set-up took a little longer due to the fact that there are now two colors of icicles white and blue,and in most places a third string of multi-colored lights. The set-up will continue next weekend when the windows and balcony area will be decorated.

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