Christmas on the Bayou

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As the Christmas season winds down, we are preparing for the annual light take-down. Of course it only takes a day to pull down and pack all lights (and a month) to setup. It has been a very busy year this year.
The lights will go off @ 11pm on January 2, 2010, and will return around Thanksgiving 2010.

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I will present the following 3 videos. You will have to forgive the quality, as I need a new camera, but it’s OK.

1) Opening

2009 Opening from Dino242 on Vimeo

2) That’s What Christmas Means to Me.

2009 That’s What Christmas Means to Me from Dino242 on Vimeo

3) Elvis on the Bayou – v2 for 2009

2009 Elvis on the Bayou from Dino242 on Vimeo

Thank you for joining us this year. We will be adding additional videos and pictures this year. Please email us your thoughts at info@christmasonthebayou.com

Thanks for Visiting

He will be giving out treat bags to all the kids that come to visit!

Hot cocoa will also be available for parents and children.

Saturday the 19th from 6-8pm.

Don’t miss your last opportunity to see Santa and Mrs. Claus for this year.

The weather lately has been very unpredictable. I have had to, several times this past week, shut down the show due to the horrible weather we have been having. I was starting to worry that some of the show items will float away

Santa and Mrs. Claus will be here on Saturday, December 19th, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm, weather depending. They will have goody bags for the kids, and also be serving hot cocoa cocoa.

Videos for this year are also behind, and it is due to the bad weather we seem to be experiencing almost nightly. As soon as possible, we will have them up.

Thanks for visiting.

A quick Thank You from Santa and Mrs. Claus for coming by Saturday night. They are planning another visit on 12/19.

Videos of this year will be coming soon.

Also, we are keeping our eye on the weather conditions. If the rain is very heavy, we will turn the display off for the evening.

Thanks for joining us this year!

Santa and Mrs. Claus had such a wonderful time last year, they will be coming back Saturday, December 5th from 6 – 8 PM! They, again, will be giving out hot cocoa and other goodies!

In other news:

Our house was featured in our local newspaper The Daily Review for the weekend edition last weekend. That, and Santa’s visit, will keep us very busy.

Thank you to everyone who will come out to celebrate Christmas with us.

We are now up and running, 7 days a week.
Sunday – Thursday – Dusk to 10PM
Friday and Saturday – Dusk to 11PM

We are trying to schedule a few visits from Santa and Mrs. Clause. Please visit this site for the latest information regarding a visit from Santa or if the display will be postponed due to weather.

90% complete. All lights are up (with some arch exceptions). Wired. Nativity will be done over the next 2 days and we will go live. Only the arch will need to be added (probably over the weekend).

106.9 FM – Done – Up and Running Christmas Music 24/7.
Lights up and running – about 50% complete.
All major wiring done.
Tune-to sign – built – waiting on vinyl this week
Voice Overs are here! Yay!

Anticipation of turning on this weekend is high.

Will keep you posted.

Updated the show info page.

So much work, so little time. Will be getting things done over the next 3 weekends. We will be testing our old equipment from last year and our new equipment for this year. Have to check on our FM Transmitter to see if she’s still alive (don’t worry, I have a backup). It’s gonna be fun

We are in the middle stages of this years show development.  Our goal will be to have our show up for the day after Thanksgiving 2009 (November 27th).  Check back later for more information.

Just wanted to drop a quick note and thank everyone that was able to come and share Christmas with us this past year.  It was our first animated Christmas display, and we believe we did pretty good.  We have much bigger plans for Christmas 2009!  I will continue to update this site throughout the year to show our progress for 2009.  I will also work a little bit on the Video page to attempt to streamline videos into one section.  There are also several other videos that we have yet to assemble for broadcast.

Stick around – there will be more to come

I hope that everyone has had an absolutely fantastic Christmas 2008.

With that…

A Mad Russians Christmas on the Bayou….

Nutcracker from Dino242 on Vimeo.

The Nutcracker

Sorry about the cars that pass by. Seems like any time of the day is not a good time of the day.

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This Christmas Season has flew past us. And this is a somewhat shortened season (4 weeks exactly from Thanksgiving to Christmas Day). I plan on having the lights run until Friday, Jan. 2nd at 11PM.
I have actually added a song recently, and will plan on putting up a couple more videos within the next day or two.

Until then..

Merry Christmas.

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Santa and Mrs. Claus want us to again thank everyone for such a wonderful visit this past Saturday. They appreciated all of the warm wishes. They are not sure if they will be able to return this year, but will let us know soon.