Texas Christmas

 Merry Christmas to All,


Well, so what... I know I'm a little late, but we've been busy getting ready for all the Texas Christmas celebrations.  We started out the season with an invitation to visit the Retama RV subdivision just to the north of our park.  They really did an awesome job kicking off the season the Friday after Thanksgiving.  Nice clubhouse, pool, etc.

Notice!  First Thanksgiving weekend I've spent in shorts and enjoying the pool.

A series of craft classes had us making some pretty nice Christmas decorations
 for our rv's.

                                                                                                                                   

Of course, wine tasting class was my personal favorite!

 The city of Hildago is famous for it's Christmas lights display.  The entire town is decorated and you can drive through it in your car or take a small trolley ride!

These pictures do not do it justice.  Each town down here had it's own parade and tree lighting festival. 

 Fireworks for Christmas is another popular tradition in south Texas.

Now it was time to roll up our sleeves and do some decorating ourselves.  We  put up some colored lights and hung our Santa flag.  We were feeling pretty proud of our little display.

 Our neighbors had quite a display and it all changed colors too!  Other people had motion sensor music, flashing lights, rope lights up the palm trees, Santa ski lifts, and I could go one.  We didn't have to drive to Hildago to see great lights.  We just looked out our window.  It was fabulous and helped get us through our first Christmas without our family and close friends.

So now all we had to do was sit back and wait for the big day...... or so we thought.