I wish I could name our town, because I'm very proud of it...but for security reasons, I'll refrain. I must say that this small town excels in it's Christmas celebrations above any other I've lived in. If you live in San Antonio - it's really worth the drive to see "The Twelve Days of Christmas". I KNOW ya'll have the river walk with lights - and we've done those for 3 years...but THIS river walk with lights is spectacular. It's also VERY peaceful and relaxed.
The Nutcracker is wonderful. The colleges, schools and several churches put on big plays. Houses all around town are grandly lit. They have airplane light flights.....we have had buses, limos and several hay rides go down our street. AND....
The city hosts THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS. This is light display that runs along the river. For a donation of $4 per car you can drive through and enjoy the beauty. There are, of course, greetings from many businesses, big displays depicting the 12 days of Christmas, a HUGE nativity light scene with camels, palm trees etc....and various other displays. We'll have to have Mike remind us how to best get the camera to work in night time light. Our flash washed out many photos. Josiah got to ride in front, so he had to be the photographer. LOL
When Josiah got home from his Christmas party, we loaded into the van to catch the lights for the first time this year. Our family loves to go out and look at lights. When it was just Mike and I, we'd take hot chocolate with us....as the kids have grown and our cars have gotten nicer we've left that tradition - though I miss it. Tonight we took *Redneck Christmas* with us. The children heard "Grandma Got Run over by a Reindeer" for the first time last year as we drove through the show. I bought a CD that has all sorts of those sorts of funny songs on it and we HAD to have that with us tonight. Maybe we'll take more traditional music with us next time.
Mike, I'm thinking NEXT Christmas you and I need to go visit lights alone on one of our date nights. Either the Honda, a thermos of hot chocolate and us....or we could rent a horse and carriage and do the river lights.....
It is very popular around here to go out for dinner and then do the lights. I've run into lots of groups doing this, and some renting limos and horse drawn carriages. Doesn't it sound fun? We went several times last year and plan to go again with the girls.
On a side note, I bought a devotional that I've been reading with an eye for next year. It goes through epiphany and I'm really thinking about doing the "12 days of Christmas" this year...with the devotionals in this book and such. I think the light show will be a good tie in for the young ones. I won't post many photos until we see if we get better ones next time we go....and I posted lots of them this time last year as well.
Light tunnel at the start of the tour
Our Courthouse - note the nativity - Will try to get a better photo of this - not well lit at night....
10 comments:
Wow! A tour? How exciting!
Dorothy
I love looking at all the lights too. When I lived up north growing up we would always but hot chocolate too and drive around and see the lights. Now, living in the south - we get chocolate shakes :-)
Next year! You, me and a thermos of hot chocolate? It's a date.
Mike
I was hoping you'd say that, Mike. Maybe we ought to think about this Chocolate Shake thing a bit though! ::snort::
Goodness we remember those lights and they are totally awesome.
Dad/I and kids plan on doing the lights in our two cities. Lots of great stuff.
There is just something wonderful about the lights. I love seeing everyones houses decorated, although we don't have "neighborhoods" much, so you have to drive a ways to see lots of lights.
What a romantic night...just you and Mike seeing the lights.
My parents and some friends of theirs in TX have a tradition of packing of crock pot of chili in the van and going to see the lights. I am not brave enough to try that though! :-)
In UT we had something similar to drive through each year. Fun!
De'Etta, Mike, you two are ardorable keeping your romance alive! {{G}}
Oh, you're making me excited to go look at our wonderful large light displays around town! I want WARM weather so we can do the zoo lights too!
Beautiful pictures.
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