December 11, 2018. Last night we joined a group of 20 people from the RV Park to attend the Hidalgo Festival of Lights Tour.  We carpooled and caravanned down to the border town of Hidalgo. This tour included a roast beef dinner, a trolley tour of the lights and a concert by a children’s mariachi band. This festival is said to be the largest lighting display in Texas. There are over 5million lights in the the display and the the trolley tour covers 3 miles of the display. The theme this year was Toyland. Deservingly, it has been called one of the Valley’s greatest holiday treasures. We thoroughly enjoyed it.

After the tour there was a concert by the children’s mariachi band. These are incredibly talented kids!  Most of them play multiple instruments and have beautiful singing voices.  This group was proud to tell us that they have been invited to perform in San Antonio this year. Their motto is, ”Music makes me happy and brings joy to others”. All in all it was a very enjoyable experience.