Christmas Lights in Seattle

Last Saturday on the first full day of Winter Solstice, a friend and I went on one of our Christmas Light tours.  This year we decided to follow KOMO TV's (channel 4) Parade of Lights list for finding spectacular Christmas Lights. 

While it was rainy during the day, by evening it cleared up enough to see an almost full moon while driving around the Seattle Area.  We covered a wide area to find these amazing displays, and while traveling from home to home, we spotted other beautiful electric expressions of the season to enjoy!

The journey began in Normandy Park....

 

Then over to West Seattle where to keep up our strength for the journey we stopped at Tully's in West Seattle to pick up some Eggnog Shakes with extra nutmeg and then to Beach Drive.

Up to Queen Anne, then over the bridge to Wallingford...Santa was on the porch at this home greeting the visitors..."Hello Santa!"

Then across Lake Washington to Bellevue to see more, at this house there was a limo doing a tour of lights.

It was a wonderful, electrical extravaganza of creative Christmas Lights expression!  Try and take a drive in your Seattle Neighborhood to see what your neighbors have done, it can be absolutely magical! 

Comments

[West Seattle Blog]

We mapped all the brightest displays in West Seattle (including the Menashe home, which you feature in this post) over the course of more than a month leading up to Christmas. The map (with each placemarker including a thumbnail photo) is on our Holidays page (looks like your comments don't allow links so click "West Seattle Blog" next to "posted by" here).

[Deborah Burns]

Hi WSB, very, very cool way to track the Christmas Lights on your blog! Sorry about not being able to link properly, I'll have to see about correcting that.

My friend drove me by the Menasche home several years ago and we return every year to admire their beautiful display. This year we happened to drive by on Dec 1st during the snow flurries and saw the heavy equipment on Beach Dr at the ready to put up the all the lights.

BTW, I linked your "... (slightly) White Christmas" post to my Neighborhood Round-up post on Rain City Guide...you always have lots of wonderful content.

I don't know why I haven't put you on my blog roll yet (I have Rhonda's Beach Drive Blog) so I will add it now. Thanks for stopping by!