Laguna Niguel Lights

This show just keeps getting better and better each year. The show how a Disney feel to it, complete with all the spectacle and grandeur. There are always cars filled with kids with their little faces pressed up against the car windows; it warms your heart to see their faces lit up. You just pull up to the house, tune your radio to 90.5 FM and enjoy.
The shows themselves are amazing. Each show is specifically synchronized to a specific song. The guy that puts the shows on is an electrical engineer; he customized and built each show himself, synchronizing millions of lights for every second of every song. There are no «canned» shows, each one is custom built and it shows!
Each show isn’t just lights blinking while music plays. Each show tells a story. For example, Carol of the Bells starts off with very little lights being used. There is a time when the piano is playing and there are strands of lights in the grass that look like piano keys being played; very cool! Then as the show progresses, more and more of the lights come into play. At the end, when just about every light is battling each other, it all just stops, then as the music gives that one final push, two shooting stars come soaring out of the darkness and crash into the ground producing strobes of white lights from the crash site, followed by an instant of every light on the house coming on at once. You can hear all the people watching gasp every single time.
People also really like the Grinch show. It starts off slow and you don’t realize it, but there is huge 7 foot tall Grinch that is blowing up in the yard as the song starts, but you’re distracted by other lights in the show. Then when it gets to the, «You’re a mean one, Mr. Grinch,» part of the song, the blown up Grinch is now lighting up to the music. You always hear kids saying, «Mommy, look, it’s the Grinch!»
All in all, a phenomenal show for the whole family and the whole thing is done to benefit the Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC). What an amazing show for a fantastic cause.