Christmas Lights

Every year, I go looking at Christmas lights with Joanna and her family. This has a been a tradition for a number of years. We grade every house we see with a letter grade from A-F, and we are ruthless. Usually you hear comments like "I give it a C for Crap" or " a B for Barf" or " I'd rather eat vomit than look at that house". Granted most of the time that is coming from my mouth, but it is mainly because people do stupid things to their houses. Like puting up only red candle lights in their windows and that is it, or people who seemingly just plug in their lights and then throw them out the front door into the yard. It is just stupidity and deserves stupid comments to go with them.
Anyway, We give out two awards at the end of the night. One for the most lights in the yard, and the other for the most elegantly decorated house. For the first award, we could care less how the house looks it is strictly just the most lights someone could fit in their yard. Giving it out is easy because usually the same house wins every year. The other award is more tricky. We are really looking for the most elegant and tastefully decorated house in the city. Almost always the decision comes down to spot light placement. We believe very strongly that a well decorated house should have a spot light on the door. What makes this hard is that alot of people don't do this. There are some really well decorated homes that would probably come close to winning if they would just put a spot light on their front door. I don't get it but most people don't do this. It is a mystery to me. Anyway, here are some pictures from that night. One is just a really big tree decorated. The others are an example of a good elegant house and the other of a good most lights house.