Any Strange Holiday Sights or Decorations?
 

Has anyone seen any strange decorations or holiday sights this year?

I have. I swear I was riding down the road a couple of hours ago and about wrecked my car.

In a fenced in pasture, I saw three LIVE CAMELS! Hello?!?!?!?! Live camels in South Carolina?

Someone is going all out for their manger scene this year.

Anyone else?

No, not yet. But maybe I'll dress up the DH as a wise man and make him stand out in the front yard this year :)

Yes! I just saw it...the ultimate Santa house. Everything was Santa...every square inch of the house, yard, roof, fence...you name it! It was on the highway right through our wine area. Wonder how many people will think they have had too much to drink after seeing that:)

Yes, Clay Aiken and Jessica Simpson "singing" downstairs from my office building here in Rockefeller Center. It's so loud that it feels like they're singing outside my door. As I mentioned in another thread, light the damn tree already!!! :-&

I have to drive by to get a better look but there is a house nearby that has huge cutouts of what look like cows and flamingos in their yard, covered in lights.
Is this a version of Florida Santa?
LOL

GoTravel, your story reminded me of the time I was in NYC in early December a few years ago. Not realizing I was near Radio City Music Hall, I was taken aback by the three camels on the sidewalk. Strange site; camels on a NYC street.

Sorry - on a NYC street no sight is strange. Stay here long enough and you'll see everything - and everyone.

(I once saw a guy try to get on the Broadway local with a stuffed moose head - at rush hour! Fortunately for the riders the antlers(?) wouldn;t fit through the doors without his turning sideways - and there wasn;t room for that.)

HAHAHA re the camels

For you NYC dwellers, I was wondering if the Naked Cowboy changes to a more festive colored underwear during the holidays.

Well folks, how about this one. About ten years while visiting relative they said "we are taking you over to our neighbors to see their tree". I thought to myself "hmmm, must be a fantastic tree". I had never met their neighbors.

Would you believe the entire Christmas tree was covered with artifical spiders?

I have never seen anything so gross in my life. We stayed all over 10 minutes.
This baby cousin has always enjoyed playing jokes on me, but really!!!

So camels seem really tame to me.

Maybe the camels are for a church's living nativity?

Lee Ann

Perhaps Auntiemarie can help me on this one. Last year in Kauai, there was a remarkable display at a house between Kaapa and Princeville.........I know that's a lot of ground...but, saw it from the road, my husband thought I was crazy, then when we found it.......well that was some good holiday electric cheer!!!

Oh my, Go Travel and Scarlett!
Last night on our walk we were
enjoying all the lights that had
gone up-this house that house-
Petaluma is big on decorating...
When yet to my wondering
eyes did appear 9 pink flamingos
swirled in lights, pulling a sled!!
They all had little white boas
around their necks-good thing as it
was about 40 degrees outside-and Santa was wearing a Hawaiin shirt.
Actually pretty clever!
R5

Oh my goodness Razzledazzle! I must confess that I do have one lighted pink flamingo in my yard! It is under my lit up palm tree! :-D

Not really strange but the most charming sight I have seen was 5 small kids and a dog flying down a local sledding hill in a plastic wading pool. All grinning from ear to ear with their scarves flying behind them. Or tongue in the dog's case.

Just back from Orlando!! What a great place...what a great mall!

anyway- Around the corner from where I live, a couple who have a house right on the water (perhaps this is why) have put out a completely lit up, Palm tree and............................Alligator!!
<font color="red">Merry Alligator !</font>

Every Christmas, dozens of babies in the mangers are stolen. Today they announced the first that is missing.

Did they put his picture on milk cartons? &quot;Missing: Baby Jesus&quot;

When I lived in W. Palm Beach, Florida, there was this Jewish family who didn't want to be left out of the holiday decorations. The put a GIANT and I mean GIANT dreidel (Channukah spinning top) on the roof of their house. It was so odd looking; I'm surprise someone didn't mistake it for a UFO...In addition, they strunge blue lights along the edge of the roof and put other Channukah stuff in the yard. I'm Jewish (in case you couldn't tell from my nickname. LOL) and had never seen anything quite like it--and I still haven't!

In Atlanta, there was a house on a major midtown street that every year put out a strange nativity scene and the 3 wise men were lawn jockeys painted with neon glow in the dark paint....

OneWanderingJew, that is hysterical!

shaz, my sis-in-law and her husband who live in Asheville basically chopped the top of a mountain and have a horendously long and steep driveway.

After one particularly beautiful snowfall and after one too many glasses of chardonnay, the 75 rocking chairs surrounding her house suddenly spoke to me!

Chairs with skis! Chairs that can ski down the driveway!

This driveway is at least 1/2 mile long.

We had rocking chair races with the kids down the driveway! We wore helmets!

Needless to say, Aunt GoTravel is loved by her neices and nephews.

One of the fraternities at Johns Hopkins puts up a lovely nativity scene, with the green alien with big eyes peering over everyone's shoulders. baltimore's also the home to 34th street where everyone puts up more crap than you can believe. it's only one block long, with rowhouses, but it's lit up like daylight.

For all you hot weather people. Here's a good one, I just saw yesterday.

Someone here (Chicago Suburban) has an above ground pool with it's green cover (now on, of course) and has the entire thing set up like a Poinsettia. It has lights in red as flower/ petals and green furry type matieral with green twinkles as the shapes of leaves going all up and down the sides.

Some of our areas, very near to me are so bright that it IS like daylight and you will see rows of cars cruising very slowly and waiting to get into certain blocks. One has a garage door screening of &quot;It's a Wonderful Life&quot; going constantly among all the other gizmos. Real overkill. But some of it did look superb in the recent snow.

Two homes here in the Jupiter, Florida area have Christmas scenes which give a giggle. One is the sleigh being pulled by Flamingo's while the other one is the sleigh being pulled by Alligator's. I'm waiting for the Fish scene.

I've always preferred Santa's sleigh being pulled by dolphins. Especially when he's wearing a tropical shirt and shorts. :D

Great new decorating ideas everyone. I think I'll skip the live camels, though. :)

These are cracking me up.

Today at Breakfast with Santa, I saw a child SCREAMING to get away from Santa. He was yelling &quot;don't let him in our house mommeeeee! don't!&quot; His father, embarrassed, was explaining to those of us in line that he think the idea of a bearded fat man coming in at midnight eating all his cookies is rather odd.

Meanwhile, my neighbors have half of a sleigh, facedown, on their roof, as if it has crashed into their house. Wrapped boxes are strewn all oevr the roof and yard, and Santa is hanging from the gutter, as if he is trying to climb back up to his sleigh. MORBID!