My Own Personal Christmas Lights

I had a red jeep once, my husband rigged it up with Christmas lights on the running board. I was puffed up about it. My grandparents had the best Christmas lights; they were jewel-toned, and bubbled up and down, like a lava lamp, before lava lamps were a thing, back in the 50's. my parents had the same boring, drab, fat-bulbed red, blue, green, and orangish-yellow Christmas lights. We wanted something better, but these were already paid for. The best Christmas light was the time I put on a Sunday School play with 85 children. My vision was to rig up a giant white star in the back of someone's pick up truck, and the children and their parents would all follow the lit up star from the church to the sale barn, which was our stable. I had to call all of the people in the church directory, because no one could figure out how to do it until I reached a man whose last name began with a Z. I think I can do that he said, and he did! I will never forget the awesomeness of this Christmas light though; it was my all-time favorite Christmas light. The procurement of it was awful at the time, but is so sweet in the memory now. So worth the trouble!