That time of the year.

Hi Everyone,

This post will be about a very fresh experience, the Christmas light switch on. :)

One thing I really miss from Budapest (apart from the friends of course) the Advent period, namely that time of the year when the city is covered in Christmas lights. Here, only the main road is lit (tho now I noticed some Christmas light along the sides of 1 road and on the couple of buildings, oh what an improvement) and the people make the Christmas light switch on a family event with music, costumes and a 'real' Santa on a 'real' sleigh.

First video: a very modern kind of reindeer, and the band. Oh by the way, the lights are switched on as the band move along on the road, so here, it is already lit. (unfortunately I cannot upload more videos, because they are bigger in size than the limit. :( )

 

Here a picture when the lights were still switched off. You can see all the families, and people who gathered together to see this big event.

 In the next couple of pictures are, hopefully, give an idea about how serious this event was. That big szaloncukor-like guys are actually Christmas crackers, very popular in the UK, consist of a segmented cardboard tube wrapped in a brightly decorated twist of paper with a prize in the central chamber. (Thank you Wikipedia for the information :) )

 But there were many children dressed as Christmas present, there were these bright spinning thingies, Christmas tree and snowman too.

I didn't make any picture about  Santa on his sleigh unfortunately. I thought I just upload the video and that's it. I tried to make a photo out of the video, so maybe.. But, try to imagine it: Santa, sitting on his sleigh, in front of him, there are his reindeer, so far so good, right? Now imagine that these reindeer are made out of plastic and lit, of course. Artificial snow is snowing.  Now imagine all of these onto an open truck, and there you go, our Santa :) 

In the background of the santa-picture, there some butterfly-like thingies, who look like they just escaped from the power rangers. Here they are in bigger. They were lucky, because there was almost no wind tonight.

And of course, at the end, the imperturbable guards of the order, the police. Maybe it is not visible in this picture, but on the front of the motorbikes there are these soft deer antlers, make the whole appearance funny and festive (I guess).

Edited: The extra picture of the Christmas lights