Originally Posted By bloona <a href="http://www.noradsanta.org/en/map/index.php" target="_blank">http://www.noradsanta.org/en/m ap/index.php</a> check this out...he's on his way. Debtee will have had her presents delivered already!
Originally Posted By melekalikimaka We love the Santa Tracker! Checking Santa's progress is a part of our Xmas eve tradition. I think we started when my daughter was a toddler. Such a fun idea...I love the thought of adults working on this sort of project. I believe!
Originally Posted By threeundertwo <---didn't know most of the "celebrities" on the celebrity page. I miss Ringo Starr.
Originally Posted By threeundertwo from the site: ". . .began after a Colorado Springs-based Sears Roebuck & Co. store advertisement for children to call Santa on a special "hotline" included an inadvertently misprinted telephone number. Instead of Santa, the phone number put kids through to the CONAD Commander-in-Chief's operations "hotline." The Director of Operations, Colonel Harry Shoup, received the first "Santa" call on Christmas Eve 1955. Realizing what had happened, Colonel Shoup had his staff check radar data to see if there was any indication of Santa making his way south from the North Pole. Indeed there were signs of Santa and children who called were given an update on Santa's position. Thus, the tradition was born. . ." God bless that quick-thinking man!
Originally Posted By Pixie Glitter We've been tracking Santa for years on this site, but I'd never heard the history of how it started. How incredibly cool! I <heart> Colonel Shoup.
Originally Posted By bloona oooooooooooooooh, he is nearly in Spain, not long until he gets to the UK...heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Originally Posted By smedley <-- Thinks Bloona is more excited than her kids lol! He better still leave me gifts if he gets there before I get home at 3.30am :/
Originally Posted By FerretAfros It looks like he's on his way from Greenland to the Caribbean right now! Hopefully he will stop by here soon, but not too soon...
Originally Posted By threeundertwo He's still in the Caribbean. The kids are getting a bit nutty at this point. My goose was great (burp!)
Originally Posted By bloona yes I was rather excited by that....my friend text me at midnight to say she was watching it still and he was heading to me house...lol
