Winter Wonderland By Abby
Every year in Tilles park St.Louis there is a Winter Wonderland Holiday light show. There is always a variety of lights they have every year, and some new ones! This year during the light show one of the new ones was smiley faces on trees that sing the Christmas songs on the radio.
Every year the people who work on the show start in Sept/Oct. Thats pretty early to be thinking about the holidays! Imagine this, you return to school for the first semester and all of your friends are talking about snow, reindeer, elves and santa. That is how early the people who work on winter wonderland start!
When you go to the light show it will seem so amazing, and you probably will wonder, how many lights does this light show use? Well they use about 1 million light bulbs/lights! That’s a lot of lights!
If you go to Tilles park in May you don't see the lights on the trees. This is because they don't put the lights up until October. In the months of Jan-Sept they keep the lights in a shed.
Some good lights that the crew uses are called light ropes. Light ropes are easy to replace, and have more color choices than other light types. So, if a light bulb goes out it is really easy to replace! This is really helpful for some people.
Winter Wonderland is always so amazing that you just might be thinking, how much money is spent on all the amazing lights? Well about $300,000 is spent on all of the lights in total.
When I went to the lights in 2016, it was probably the worst night to go due to a sleet storm. It took about 45 minutes to get to Tilles park even though my house is right near the park! Many people were trying to get home from work/school, and there were also car accidents from the sleet. There was sooooooo much traffic.
Sadly, it is too late to go this year because the park was only open from Nov 23-Jan 1. They usually open just before Thanksgiving and close New Year’s day or right after New Years.
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i love how you explained what it is because of the title i thought it was not interesting but when i read it i wanted to go there
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