Trinidad	Neptune	Catamaran
Drake	Pitcairn	Windjammer
Edgewater

Well, here it is! Your chance to vote for the best Christmas Lights in Foster City. For closer inspection click on the thumbnails above for a larger view…or click on this link to see the full posts on each house. 

http://fostercityblog.com/category/christmas-lights-in-foster-city/

By the way, it’s one vote per computor. Any and all comments made here, or on any of the other posts will enter you into a seperate drawing to be held on Wednesday for a $100.00 gift certificate to Turtle Bay Restaurant. All the rules of this contest are availble to view on the bar above. The owner and creator of the best lights display will recieve one too.  All of them are really great and all of these families deserve congratulations! Voting will end Tuesday night at Midnight. Thanks for playing!!

Last, but certainly not least, is the final entry in the 2008 Lights contest! It’s a really good one too! This house is located at 515 Pitcairn and is the product of the Wenzel family. It’s another classic of the form and has been among other showplace houses in the Bay Area in the past on other websites touting well done Christmas lights. Lot’s of lights and even more inflatable contraptions that pretty much fill up the front yard. It’s really great!

Don’t forget, voting takes place beginning on Friday. All the rules of this contest are available to view on the bar above. There will be 2 gift certificates of $100.00 each given out, 1 to the winner of a drawing that will be done on New Years Eve that you can be eligible for simply by making a comment or by asking me a question in the “Ask Me” link on the right margin. The other gift certificate goes to the best house as voted on by you! Have fun…and have a great day tomorrow!

OK, we’re in the home stretch! Voting is coming on Friday…so get ready to rumble! Today’s entry is located at 503 Drake Ct and is the product of the Brannon family. The Brannon’s have a front yard made up pretty much entirely of small white stones…so it appears to be snow all the lights and decorations are sitting on. All those bluish lights are very cool too and add a different flavor to the display that works really well with the white stones.

Remember, any and all comments made on this, or any other “Lights” post enters you into the drawing for $100.00 gift certificate to Turtle Bay Restaurant. All the rules of this game are available to read on the bar above too. You can win…the creator of the lights can win too! One final entry is coming on Wednesday…and it’s a good one too! Thanks and have a great week!

 This house is also way, way up there on my list! It’s really an achievement, it’s located at 1052 Windjammer and it’s the product of the Yamauchi family. Check out all of this detail…all those small, lit Frosty’s and Santa’s between the Candy Canes along the front yard boundary. How about the walking Santa on the wall up front! Like I said…this place has details galore! The truth is that we couldn’t get a well lit photo of the whole structure so this shot is missing more great gizmos on the roof over the main body of the house. The Yamauchis have really outdone themselves here folks…this is really must see viewing!

If you’re new to this contest, please check out the rules on the bar above. Voting is coming up the day after Christmas…the 26th. Don’t forget, any comment left on any one of the “Lights” posts qualifies you for a drawing held on New Years Eve for $100.00 gift certificate to Turtle Bay Restaurant in the Metro Center. Keep those comments coming…and any question asked on that “Ask Me” link on the right hand margin enters you in the drawing too. Good luck and have a great weekend!

OK, here’s the link to more detail:  BigWindjammer

So…this is beginning to get interesting! There sure were alot of folks supporting the McCarty/Kempton light show on Neptune the other day. Well now we have another very worthy selection, and this one is a whole lot easier to casually view as well! It’s the house at 1098 Edgewater , just down the street from the Edgewater Place shopping center. It’s the product of the Collado family, and as you can see, it’s fabulous in that old school sort of way. No inflatable stuff, just a ton of small lights…some of which are on the inside of the house and visible through some rather large windows. This is a very strong contender too and is certainly not to be missed!

It’s worth noting that the first two entries in this contest have added to, and upgraded, their presentations since we began. I may just have to re-shoot those houses before the final voting begins as a result! The pressure is mounting and the contestants seem to be getting more and more serious!

Remember, each and every comment placed on any of the “lights” posts enters you into the eventual drawing for a $100.00 gift certificate to Turtle Bay Restaurant…so feel free to engage your friends and family to participate. All the rules of this contest are available on the bar above, but there will alos be a second $100.00 gift certificate that will be awarded to whoever is voted best lights display in Foster City out of the 7 total contestants. Voting will begin the day after Christmas…the 26th and will last until New Years Eve.

I really think this display is my favorite. It’s hard to make out all of the details in this photo but it reminds me of some of the animated store windows I grew up gazing at around this time of year. Lot’s of small moving parts, including Santa on a teeter totter opposite some frightened looking Raindeer. All this in front of a townhouse too!! It’s really clever stuff and is well worth a special trip to see it, especially if you have kids!

It’s the product of Jeff McCarty and his wife Kim Kempton and it’s located at 747 Neptune in the Edgewater Townhouses. You’ll need the map on this link above for sure if you’re going hunting for it because it’s a little tucked away and it’s not visible from any major streets outside of this project. This one may also require that you hurry to see it, as some folks from the HOA are beginning to make a fuss about these lights conflicting with the CC&R’s. I hope they’ll make it through the month. It’s really, really cute stuff!

Remember, all the rules of this contest are available to see on the bar above. Any and all comments placed in this, or any of the other “Let There Be Light(s)” posts will qualify as an entry into the drawing for $100.00 gift certificate to Turtle Bay Restaurant. Voting will also take place as to which entry (there’s 7 of them) is the best lights display in Foster City 2008. Feel free to comment early and often as each comment will be thrown into the hat. Thanks folks!!

OK, I’ve managed to reduce down the number of potential winners in the lights contest to a total of 7 places. All of them are very, very good too! The photo’s will run twice a week with the last one being published the day after Christmas. All of the rules of this contest are available to view via a link on the bar above. Remember, any and all comments you make on any of these seven posts enters you into the drawing for the $100.00 gift certificate to Turtle Bay Restaurant. If you write 10 comments, or send me 10 e-mails through that link on the right hand margin titled “Ask Me”, you’ll get 10 shots at the prize. Voting will take place in the last week of the year to see which home will be crowned best lights in 2008. That homeowner will also win a $100.00 gift certificate to Turtle Bay.

Today’s fabulous light show is located at 547 Trinidad and is the product of the Cave family. It’s really fantastic and features lots of well displayed painted images. There’s a nice stream of blinking lights that descends from the roof into the front yard that makes this house stand out from a long way off. The house is a waterfront and I didn’t see it from that side, but I’ll bet it presents well that way too. Great stuff!

And now for something completely different! I’m suspending the Foto Contest for the rest of the year and in it’s place we’re going to have a contest of a different kind. This time we all have the opportunity to vote on the home with the best Christmas lights in Foster City. Each Friday, and maybe Wednesday’s too, I’m posting a photo of a Foster City home that out does itself with a light display. This will include condo/townhouses as well as single family homes. Unfortunately, our camera isn’t perfect when it comes to capturing the full impact of these places, but we’re trying our best! There’s two types of winners for this contest, 1) the homeowner who created these displays and 2) you who will vote on which one’s best. How will that work? On December 29 I’ll have a post with all the choices and you can vote for who’s best. The winner of the best display get’s $100.00 gift certificate to Turtle Bay Restaurant at the Metro Center. How can you win? All persons voting will be entered into a drawing for another $100.00 gift certificate to Turtle Bay. You win and the light creator wins too! Just to make it a little more fun, since we won’t be voting until all of the photos are published, any comment you make on these photo posts will be considered an entry into the drawing. Also, if you send me a message through the link on the right hand margin that says “Ask me Something, I know stuff” I’ll consider that an entry as well…You can just say “hi” as far as I’m concerned.

It’s all a little kooky, I know, but I wanted to try something different plus I wanted to be in the spirit of the season!

This particular photo is of the house at 1101 Catamaran and it’s the product of the Klink family. They’ve really gone all out here, with lots of moving parts and Santa in a little airplane on the roof with a moving propeller! It’s great stuff! Go see it…and have a great weekend!