Dec. 13, 2020 - Holiday Light Show

This past week, Diana and I attended the GLOW Holiday Festival, a light show set up on the Minnesota state fairgrounds. It’s a mile long, drive-through extravaganza being held for the first time. Right at the beginning of the drive, we were greeted by Santa who had a bucket of candy canes that he was giving out.

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The GLOW Festival web site says they used over a million lights. How would you like to pay THAT electric bill? Some of the displays were simple, but well-done, like this bear. I think that’s a snowflake covering up part of the bear on the right.

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What’s a holiday without presents? These were HUGE packages with ribbons on top.

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This tree made of lights was taller than any real pine tree that I’ve seen.

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They did have some more realistic-looking trees as well.

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On stage in the middle of the show, this cowboy was probably trying to rope a calf.

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We finally decided these must be icicles, although they are upside down.

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This was a very colorful display.

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Here’s a wide-angle shot showing a forest of lighted trees. On the left is one of the many real fairground trees with its trunk wrapped in lights.

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I thought they did a really good job of depicting this moose.

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Here’s Santa’s sleigh being driven by one of the elves. However, the last time I read the story, Santa’s sleigh was not being pulled by a car!

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These giant snowflakes look like they came down so hard that they buried themselves partway into the ground.

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This looks like a northern Minnesota forest.

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