Many people in Australia decorate their homes in the weeks leading up to Christmas with lights. We have a few Christmas lights on the front of our home this year. Other homes in our town have quite a few more than we do. Some of the displays are quite elaborate.
Yesterday when visiting Canberra I drove to see an amazing sight - a home that has the Guinness Book of Records award for the house with the most number of Christmas lights in the world. David Richards has used more than 500,000 lights to create an amazing Christmas display, with gold coin donations made by viewers going to help SIDS and Kids ACT charities.
His house took the Guinness Book of Records award in 2011, but was out-lit by a house in New York in 2012. David added more lights this year and took a month to create the display, taking a week off work and using his weekends.We have enough trouble putting up our two strings of lights without them being tangled. I don't know how David managed to get all the lights up without them being one huge mess of wires.
The spectacular display has more than 50 kilometers of LED string lights, 520 Lightorama channels controlling a 50 metre walk-through multi-colored canopy, and an 18 metre high Christmas tress which has lights synchronised to music.
The Christmas light display will be shining each night up until Christmas at 3 Tennyson Crescent, Forrest, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
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