The day after Thanksgiving is always a date we keep on the calendar here at the North Pole — it marks the beginning of Operation Merry Christmas. Operation Merry Christmas is what we call the effort of Santa delivering around the world. A lot of detail and planning goes in to getting Santa around the […]
Santa’s favorite holiday is Thanksgiving. We’ve told you this many times before. In fact, Thanksgiving is a day Santa and the North Pole celebrates several times a year. In Canada Thanksgiving is in October. Santa loves to celebrate Thanksgiving with his Canadian family and friends. Santa, after all, is a Canadian citizen (actually, he holds […]
Like many people the next couple of days will be festive here at the North Pole. As everyone here gathers to celebrate the American Thanksgiving we also focus on the bigger event of turning on all the Christmas lights. Every year we kick off the celebrations of Christmas with a lighting ceremony. Santa himself flips […]
Tracking Santa is a very old tradition. Kids and families have been doing it for as long as Santa has been flying. Santa wants you to understand the many ways to track him on Christmas Eve. There are many new tools available online to help you track Santa but Santa still prefers the old fashion […]
Today is the 24th! One month from this very day we will be tracking Santa around the world. That fact is not lost on the North Pole. Everyone here is very busy. We are not only preparing for Operation Merry Christmas but we are also trying to get our homes ready for the big lighting […]
Have you ever received an orange in the toe of your stocking on Christmas morning? Ever wondered why Santa puts it there? The orange in the stocking is in remembrance of the Bishop’s gold. Long ago, the ancient St. Nicholas would deliver gifts at Christmas in the dead of night while people were sleeping. There […]
The North Pole receiving department is moving tons and tons of pallets around in order to make room for all the new Christmas wrapping paper that has arrived at the North Pole. Elf Wally is very happy to see this big shipment arrive. “We cannot do our job very well when we don’t have the […]
If you have been following along with news coming from the Tracking Center at Tracking Santa.net you already know that Santa’s sleigh has been undergoing all kinds of test flights. In fact, recent problems in Africa in test flying the sleigh has caused Elf Quinton to return the sleigh to the North Pole for redesign. […]
There is an idea out there that Santa has a naughty list. He has never said he does. And he won’t answer my questions about whether or not it is true. But we all know the songs and we all know the legends: Santa just knows when you’re naughty. To help counter what you might […]
There is a little flu bug going around the North Pole. Nothing serious, just a few elves down with the sniffles. Elf Lionel, head elf at the North Pole Medical Center, said they have come to expect a few days lost for elves who get sick. “Years ago we had that famous Christmas where so […]
Elf Hugo from Santa’s Post Office says the mail for Santa is starting to increase significantly as Christmas approaches. “We are actually getting a lot of mail from entire school classes of kids,” Elf Hugo explained. “Most kids around the world are in school right now and teachers will batch letters from kids to ask […]
