A big Photo share... One of our family traditions whether we have the grand children with us or not is to go and check out the Christmas lights each year and this year we were fast running out of time to do so... We didn't have time to do it in Rocky before we left and we only had three days on the Sunshine Coast before we were heading back to Bundaberg for a few days.
We did manage to go to Lifepointe Christmas Lights, but didn't have the kids with us and as they had gone to Cairns for a holiday they hadn't managed to see them either so if only one night to spare to go and see them, I put a call out on the Facebook Sunshine Coast Community page for recommendations of where to see the best Christmas lights between Maroochydore and Caloundra and undoubtedly the most responses were to check out Rainsford Place in Buderim so that is where we were headed.
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Love this photo of Willow and I...
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What an amazing display. There must have been 50 houses
all lit up in a ring road and about 10,000 people trying to see them.
The place was packed but we managed to find a park and we walked the
whole lot. The kids just LOVED IT, and Max thought it was the best
night ever. Part of the joy for Steve and I was just listening to their
conversations and seeing the excitement as they viewed the different
houses. They were super impressed with the snow machine at one of the
houses that was throwing snow up over us all. A real credit to this
little community. We haven’t seen anything like it and just loved it.
Max was pretty much in seventh heaven as we wandered the footpaths. At this display they had a lot of wading on the ground representing snow and I think the thing that Max love the most was at this house they actually had a snow making machine which was throwing out snow all over us. Max and Willow just thought that it was wonderful.
Not only do people come from far and wide to see the lights, but some
residents have even moved specifically to take part in the extravagant display. The owners at No 18 Rainford Place moved in 5 years ago knew moving there meant contributing to the light show...
It turns out that the neighbours in the street are very friendly and they help out new folk buying into the street by giving new comers into the street a few lights each.
Two new residents moved in last year who just knew already, and one
guy moved there specifically to be a part of it.
The street is already a strong contender in the competition but Rainsford
Place has a secret weapon under its belt.
On Christmas Eve, apparently the street gathers to light hundreds of candles and place
them on the side of the road for what they call "Santa's landing
strip".
They had a snow machine, smoke machine and lasers last year, and our children
just lovde it. Some families come every second night.
A lot of the houses have lots of interactive displays which the children just loved and it gave us plenty of opportunities to do some photo bombing with them...
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One of Steve's favourites...
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I was particularly impressed with the number of houses that had representation of the nativity scene and the true meaning of Christmas. Several of the houses in the street had a manager scene withe Joseph, Mary, the baby Jesus and wise men and shephards. It was great to see that the reason for the season was the birth of Jesus...
The kids were super excited to see Mickey and Minnie Mouse displayed at one of the homes...
One of the houses even had a photo booth set up so that the kids could have different sort of photos taken using props. Max and Willow thought this was a great idea and we had to take several photos of them using all sorts of different masks...
I am so glad we went. It is truly one of the most spectacular streets I have seen. It would have taken us well over an hour to walk around the whole street, but the children both declared that it was the best night ever... We got so much joy from listening to their banter together and seeing how excited they got. It truly made our evening...
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