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Ken's Tacky Christmas Tour 2009 | Friday, 2009 December 18 - 8:30 pm |
You may remember Tacky Christmas Tour 2005, where I took you on a wondrous journey of North Carolina Christmas decorating. I have some new treats for you, after the jump... There's a place a ways down I-40, just east of Benson, where they annually put on a giant light show. Actually I think it stays up year-round. You ride around in a little "train" (actually some trolley cars attached to a tractor or something) and take in the sights. It's quite a spectacle. Here's just a small fraction of the hundreds of displays they had. ![]() There's nothing that says "Christmas" quite like a giant singing bear. ![]() Wait, I was mistaken. Even more representative of Christmas is the Toy Clown Monster who has come to eat your children. RRARRRHHH. ![]() It wouldn't be North Carolina if NASCAR wasn't included, and hey! WE ARE WINNERS! Of course it's not hard to be a winner when you're racing against an antique jalopy. ![]() This is more traditional, I suppose... it's the Christmas tradition of unleashing fiery cannonballs at your enemies. ![]() But hey. It's Christmas. We should put away our mechanisms of war, and settle our differences over a game of Christmas tennis. While wearing fur hats and pointy shoes. This whole display sits behind an old country store, where they sell all kinds of old-fashioned candy and chocolate-coated nuts. They also have a collection of old signs like this one: ![]() Why indeed? It seems like even in the 1920s, they were imagining the many possibilities technology could bring. On our way back from this Christmas wonderland, we drove by a little house in Benson, which was entirely covered in Christmas decorations: ![]() ![]() Makes you wonder where he stores all this stuff during the off-season. Merry Christmas, everyone. ![]() |
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Comment #1 from Elizabeth (Guest) 2009 Dec 20 - 10:21 pm : # |
That is the unhappiest cat ever. Perhaps he has no option but to beat it by hand? |