FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS - Hidalgo, Texas

Hidalgo Festival of Lights is the largest Christmas lighting display in Texas with more than 2 1/2 million lights and more than 250 large lighted displays on a 3 mile trail through Hidalgo. We went with a group of 10 from the Park. $10 got us dinner at Town Hall . .





a narrated Trolley ride thru town . . ..





, and entertainment by the Rio Grande Valley Sweet Adelines . . .

and Washboard Willy!The Lights were spectacular. The town square iscovered with lighted displays and there are lots more throughout the town.

































Getting ready to board the Trolley

Ramón Ayala is an accordion player and singer of norteño music from Nuevo León, Mexico. The King Of The Accordion and 4 time Grammy winner, featured in 13 movies, and has recorded 105 albums. He is known for his great generosity and annual Christmas party for children at the annual Posado in Hildago. He provides toys for thousands of children along with a concert and food.















Would like to go back and check out the Christmas Displays at the Pump House

In 1910, an irrigation pump house was established on the banks of the Rio Grande in Hidalgo. Water from the river was pumped into a canal system, at a rate of 400,000 gallons per minute at its height, to irrigate thousands of acres of chaparral, which were then cleared and sold for the growing of sugar cane, cotton, citrus and vegetables in the semi-arid land.