In Australia we know that each year the Christmas season truly begins not when shops start selling Christmas relate gifts and products and decorations (which this year started in early October) but when normal suburban folk start turning on huge elaborate decorated lights on their property or on their street.

This year is no different and a few days ago a gentlman by the name od David Richards and his family broke the Guniess World Record by lighting up a total of no less than 502,165 lights. (I feel for the poor representative from Guniess that had to count them). David and his family is no stranger to this honour. Back in 2011 he decided to do the same but he only managed to decorate his house back then with 331,038 lights.

The attempt though was not simply a vanity attempt though as he wanted to raise money for a local charity at the same time. Previously back in 2011 he managed to raise a staggering $78000 Australian dollars. The funny thing is that David decided only to re-attempt the record after he discovered another family from New York broke his original effort. The effort by the Gay family in America managed 346,283 lights in total. In true Australian spirit though David decided to one up this effort and attempt it again. Well not only has David surpsed the number done in America but he has possibly put it truly out of reach for quite a few years to come.

You can see the display at 3 Tennyson Crescent, Forrest in Canberra Australia. Some highlights of this huge light show include:
- A staggering 50 killometres (31miles approximately) worth of lights
- A huge light ceiling
- 18 metre tall tree
- All set to a repeating tune of Christmas jingles

This display will be viewable to the public starting this Saturday 30th November from 7.30pm to 10.30pm each night. During the 21st to the 24th the display will be on until midnight.

Here is a video of the display in case like most of us you simply cannot travel to Canberra Australia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmxWYuaG9e0