speaking as an employee of apple electric i would like to comment tyger7404's blog. we spend a month preping and putting the lights up before they actually go on in december.
I live there. I pass that dumb place 6 times a day.. its a electric company, its not a house and those lights have been set up since they opened... Its not like they put those lights up every christmas. It is awesome, I have to admit but its now the third year that this has been going on....