[wpgmza id=”2″] Click here >> to Visit the Tracking Center World Map Right on time and head first into a roaring blizzard — Santa has launched from the North Pole, officially throwing Operation Merry Christmas into the delivery phase of the mission. This is the moment we’ve been working towards all year long. For all […]
It has been nearly a full year and there have bene millions of suggested names submitted but at the end only one name can win. We’re talking about the name for Santa’s sleigh this year! All year long Santa accepts suggestions and at this moment he makes the selection. This year’s winner is….Hannah Fontaine of […]
A big moment now in Operation Merry Christmas — Santa is hitching the reindeer to the sleigh! This is something Santa likes to do all by himself. It is a very quiet moment. Santa leads the reindeer into place one by one, talking to them as he does so. In fact, he will whisper to […]
For a couple of hours now the sleigh bells that are used on Santa’s sleigh have been painstakingly attached, polish and now are being tuned. This is a very tedious process that requires close attention to detail. If you have ever watched an expert tune a piano you know a little bit about how it […]
It is past 7pm in parts of the far South Pacific. That means bed time warnings — officially — will soon be coming from the North Pole to people who live there. The bed time warnings then begin to unroll like a scroll across the world. Santa issues bed time warnings becuase he cannot visit […]
Nap time is officially over for Santa and the reindeer. Just like the sleigh they now go through their own preparations for flight. For the reindeer it is like watching great athletes get ready to compete. They stretch. They concentrate. Elf Victor keeps their space very quiet and tends to them individually. Santa, on the […]
With Santa’s launch just a couple of hours away all the finishing touches are being put on the sleigh now. And that includes a fresh wax job. “Santa is very picky about his vehicles,” says Elf Hubert, an elf tasked with getting the sleigh ready. “He always wants it clean and shiny — and fast. […]
It is officially December 24th in parts of South America and the Carribean — and the day has dawned now for many in Europe. Expect a lot of reports coming out of Europe this year. We have more trackers there this year than ever in history. We can also expect a lot of mail from […]
High winds continue to pester the North Pole and it is starting to affect the stability of power at the North Pole. But don’t worry about electricity for us — we have backup generators to use if we need them. Still, it speaks to how strong this storm is and how dangerous things are outside. […]
Kids in the South Pacific have reached out to the North Pole to request a bed time warning right now. It is early evening there — and we mean, VERY early evening. It may be only 6pm in some parts of the South Pacific at this hour. That’s too early to go to bed. Nobody […]
Wish we had good news to report here but we don’t: the weather here at the North Pole has gone from awful to just plain worse. If Santa has to launch in a few hours he will have to do it with his eyes closed because he will see just as much that way. In […]
