Are long lines, traffic, endless gift shopping and wrapping leaving you too busy this holiday season to burden yourself with hanging Christmas lights on your Howard County home? Luckily for you Merriweather Post Pavilion is hosting their annual display of more than 75 spectacular larger-than-life, animated and stationary light creations in Columbia, Maryland.

Minutes from your Columbia home, ride through this smorgasbord of lights festivity with hot cocoa in hand now through January 1, 2012 gazing at these wonderful light creations. This is a wonderful group activity between family and friends alike.  The Merriweather Post Pavilion is open 7 days a week from 6:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m., including holidays with the exception of December 31st. All proceeds from the Christmas light display benefit the Campus Development Plan for Howard County General Hospital: A member of Johns Hopkins Medicine.