There is a subdivision back in Aiken that is famous for two things, Christmas lights and Halloween. They actually have to have police directing traffic at the two entrances in. As it turns out, the street we plan on buying on, Pacific Terrace, is similar in spirit, at least for Halloween (don’t know about Christmas yet.) The folks along the street really go all out decoration-wise and are known for giving out full-size candy bars.
So to get a flavor of might be in our future, we decided to drive over around 6:30 and park on a parallel street, El Dorado Ave. Pacific Terrace has a wide grass median with one way traffic on either side. They shut traffic off to the street for 8 blocks. Wow, tons of families filling the sidewalks and streets dressed in costumes. The houses that were decorated were from tame to Yikes! There even a few just dark and not participating, but they were a minority.
The photo above is the house right next door to our proposed new home. Both times we visited during the day the two white girl ghosts, who must be motion sensing animatronic, would start to turn their heads back and forth while cackling, much to the delight of our realtor and ourselves. One of the dark houses that night was the one we are trying to buy, so for now, we don’t have big shoes to fill. We might start out going small school like some of the other homes. They just had some lights and dressed up in costume to hand out candy while sitting in their driveway around a small fire pit.