Tacky Lights Tour

A BIG Richmond tradition is the Tacky Lights Tour. 50+ homes have been decorated with 40,000+ lights, multiple inflatables, homemade displays, and some even set to music. The whole thing is very well coordinated through the newspaper, tourism industry, and businesses - you can even pay to take a guided tour by bus or limo. It's a big deal. We ventured out last night on our first self-guided tour. I chose an area of town and created a map to go from one home to another. If you want our map, let me know. If you come visit, we'll take you on a tour to the best ones we have found.

It was unbelievable!! Last night, we only made it to 12 houses. I'm working on our next area to cover. I have about 20 still on my list from our side of town that I want to go to. Here are a few of our favorites.
Do you notice what is in the upper right window (bottom left pic)? Awesome! If you don't know what that is go watch A Christmas Story (It's like the 4th of July!!). Their next door neighbor had the little "Ditto" sign. One of my other favorites was the house with a lake in the backyard. Great reflection.

We have a video of one house's lights, which were set to music being broadcast from their own FM transmitter. I can't get my video to load, but here is a video from the tacky tour list (our video was better, oh well). I'm amazed at how much these people put into their displays.