Luminaria Tour (Hope: live, bus, location)

[mortimer]

Here are some pictures of the UNM campus with luminarias:
the pathway before us on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

This must have happened Saturday because Sunday after a wonderful (and healthy) breakfast at the Frontier we saw the leavings on the campus.

[dlschuyler]

My family and I drove the Luminaria Tour in our car and it was an awful experience. The traffic is bumper to bumper AND the buses have the right of way. We basically sat in traffic the entire evening. By taking the bus, you totally can sit back and leave the driving to someone else. They take you to the best neighborhoods and it's such a joy and stressfree way to do it this way, that we've made it a tradition for our Christmas Eve.

[Air]

My daughter read a Christmas book that said the farolitos were invented by a young New Mexican girl whose father was away at war and whose grandfather was too ill to cut the wood and post the luminarias. So she decided to put candles in little brown paper bags of sand and light the way for carrollers to come to their house for Christmas, and they decided to call them farolitos, little lighthouses.

Is any of this true? It was a nice story, the father comes home wounded from the war and follows the farolitos home. It's set in the 40s.

[icystrz]

you guys have gotten me excited about the luminary tour! when does this tour happen? have i already missed it? dothey have multiple evenings when they hold the tour? is there a website to find this on?

sorry for all the questions i would just like some more information.


thanks in advance!!

[abqsunport]

Originally Posted by icystrz

you guys have gotten me excited about the luminary tour! when does this tour happen? have i already missed it? dothey have multiple evenings when they hold the tour? is there a website to find this on?

sorry for all the questions i would just like some more information.


thanks in advance!!

Nope, happens on Christmas eve.

Here is a website to help:
http://www.cabq.gov/transit/luminariatour2007.html


Happy Holidays!!!!!!

[icystrz]

thank you so much Abqsunport!

My family does their own "Lights tour" on christmas eve, but moving across the country i dont get to do that anymore

i am excited about it..

[abqsunport]

Originally Posted by icystrz

thank you so much Abqsunport!

My family does their own "Lights tour" on christmas eve, but moving across the country i dont get to do that anymore

i am excited about it..

yes, I think it will be a pleasant shock how New Mexico loves luminarias.

[Dancingearth]

Originally Posted by Towanda

OKAY.

Now you are making me really really really homesick to be in New Mexico.

OH ME too! I always miss New Mexico at Christmas. Beautiful.

[Dancingearth]

Originally Posted by Air

My daughter read a Christmas book that said the farolitos were invented by a young New Mexican girl whose father was away at war and whose grandfather was too ill to cut the wood and post the luminarias. So she decided to put candles in little brown paper bags of sand and light the way for carrollers to come to their house for Christmas, and they decided to call them farolitos, little lighthouses.

Is any of this true? It was a nice story, the father comes home wounded from the war and follows the farolitos home. It's set in the 40s.

When I lived in Santa Fe I was told there is s difference between farolitos and luminarias. One is a small fire and the other is the candle in the bag. Can't remember which is which now (ignore Wikipedia on this one.) If you go up Canyon road in Santa Fe on Christmas Eve you will see both. I don't know if your story is true but I like it.

[mortimer]

More flickr pics to see what youse out-o-staters missed (again) this year:

http://flickr.com/photos/27487478@N0...l-albuquerque/

This one is especially cool.
http://flickr.com/photos/klausternm/...l-albuquerque/
(be sure to click the [All Sizes] link to zoom right into it)