48 Weeks Until Christmas
Flight Command announced yesterday about the mass migration of reindeer from the North Pole – as I told you last week in talking about Trixie and the Mighty Mick.
They have already left. Now everyone else is feeling as sad as I am with all the reindeer leaving.
I shouldn’t say all. Most of the reindeer are leaving, but not all. Some are from here and they stay year round.
But the reindeer always bring energy with them. I love when they come back because their coming is a sign that Christmas is close.
It won’t be long before they come back. And when they do return they are going to learn about Santa’s new sleigh.
Santa this week named a number of elves to the Sleigh Committee. That is a group of elves who decide on the annual project to give Santa a new sleigh. He takes a new one every Christmas Eve.
I don’t know when that idea started. I guess it happened when it became necessary for Santa to go faster and faster every Christmas. For many, many years Santa used the same sleigh.
But as more and more people came to believe in Santa it became necessary to find new ways to get Santa around the work quicker, so that he could get to every believer’s house before they awoke on Christmas morning.
That’s been at least a couple of hundred years now.
So every year, right after Christmas is over, a number of sleigh experts are assembled as a team to discuss new ways to help Santa go faster. That begins with sleigh design.
For the next couple of months they will meet to exchange ideas. They will debate. They will build a few crude prototypes and test them right here at the North Pole. Then they will meet and discuss some more.
They will repeat this process a few times before settling on a design they feel is best.
The goal is to have one single design to work from before the 1st of June. Then, beginning in June, the new sleigh design will begin rigorous testing in various parts of the world. They will test the sleigh in different climates, in all kinds of weather and through all imaginable situations.
Between June and December, the sleigh may go through half a dozen revisions and it will be tested over and over again.
By the time Santa jumps into the sleigh when he launches from the North Pole the sleigh is hoped to be faster than ever and safe for his annual merry trek.
It’s a long process but it’s worth it. The Sleigh Department is happy to report, based on recent data from last Christmas, that for 12 straight years Santa has improved both his flight time and his delivery rate.
That cannot happen without constantly improving on Santa’s sleigh.
Flight Command will keep us informed of their progress with Santa’s new sleigh, just as they keep us informed on Santa’s reindeer.
We hope you keep checking in with us!
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