Saturday, December 13, 2003
El Campo RV Park, Van Horn, TX - Dec 12-13
Van Horn is another Texas crossroads at a watering hole town. Their motto is "The town is so healthy we had to shoot a man to start a cemetery"! It should be "The wagon train broke down, otherwise no one would have stopped". There isn't usually much going on here, so we were pleasantly surprised (actually we sort of planned it) to find that they were having their annual lighted Christmas parade. This is an event that is written up in all their tourist literature, so we looked forward to attending it. It actually consisted of about 15 "floats", with only about 4 of them what you would call floats. The rest were cars/golf carts/emergency equipment decorated with lights. There was sort of a street carnival afterwards with craft booths. a few food booths, carolling and the lighting of the outside tree. Afterwards we enjoyed driving around the neighborhoods looking at the lighted houses.
# posted by Doug and Willie @ 11:41 PM 
