So the first night I was back in KC I realized that most of my neighbors go way overboard with their Christmas lights. Not Clark Griswald overboard, but overboard nonetheless. And I really noticed the new trend in my neighborhood: Candy Canes. Everyone had one. So I called up Layla, and she and I drove around the neighborhood and came up with a top and bottom five lights, along with one obvious winner. Check it:
The previously mentioned Layla. She drove. I took pictures. It was a good combo
Before we start, in case you didn’t believe me on the candy cane fiasco:
Everyone had these 6 foot tall lit-up candy canes.
Another street of candy canes.
Here are some candy cane statistics for you:
- 307 Houses in Lake Tapawingo
- 801 People
- 350 CANDY CANES! (we counted.)
- That means each house has 1.14 candy canes, and each candy cane is shared by only 2.29 people. God Bless Missouri.
But without further ado, let’s get right into the Bottom Five. These people just wasted my time and their electricity. It honestly boggles me why they’d bother at all. What I was looking for here was an obvious effort put into having horrible lights.
5) I call this one: We just threw these lights in this tree.
4) The one string of lights hints that they have a little spirit, but please, shut of your flood light. It doesn't count. Neither do the poinsettias
3) The flaw here lies in the fact that they either ran out of staples or quit trying with about two feet of lights left.
2) This person barely had to reach out the door to look like an idiot.
And our champ of the Worst Lights in Lake Tapawingo:
1) Ok. There is a large quanitity of lights here. But they only wrapped them halfway up one tree. Fantastic. So much effort was put into ruining Christmas.
Now! Let’s move onto the best of the decent. Here are the Top Five Lights of Lake Tapawingo:
5) I know. There were better houses, many better houses, but this makes our list because of the giant Snow Globe
4) Consistent coloring. Nice setup. Solid all around.
3) What you can't see are the two candy canes in their yard. Fo Serious.
2) Honestly this house is way cooler than the lights on it. It's down the street from me five houses, and is a gingerbread-replica-house.
1) Across the street (exactly) from the Gingerbread House. They had nothing to do for a couple of weekends to get this stuff up. Phenomenal. And they leave it on 24 hrs/day. Sorry neighbors.
So there it is. I’m sorry for the lack of clarity with photos, but there was no way I was getting out of the car for this. Not a chance. Still wanting more? Check out this, the GRAND ULTIMATE CHAMPION HOUSE that we came upon:
We stumbled upon this house near my own (turn up your volume)
