Santa Sleigh

We participated in our Fire Department's Santa Sleigh again this year. The Santa Sleigh is part of our Giving Tree Project. For this portion of the project, the fire department takes Santa, some firefighters and a fire engine to our local neighborhoods to collect non-perishable food. For the Giving Tree portion, we adopt families with our local elementary school. We then divide the food we collected to give to the families. We also shop for gifts for each of the families. It's such a great project! We are able to provide food for several weeks as well as new clothes and toys for the families.

This year we were very fortunate that we didn't have any rain the first week of our Santa Sleigh. However we weren't so lucky the second week. It down poured on us! Poor Santa got soaked! So much so that the kids couldn't sit on his lap when they visited since he was soaking wet! Despite the rain, we had a great turnout!







 Merry Christmas to all! And to all a good night! 


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