Celebrate Santa, day 2

Note from Santa's web elf: This week Santa David is at the Celebrate Santa convention in Gatlinburg, Tenn. Here's his latest missive.

Hello, Family and Friends,

Well, here it is, the end of Day 2 at the Convention. Our day got off to a frantic start. Because of the time change just a week ago, then another time change just before we got to Gatlinburg, our internal clocks were pretty much all goofed up and we woke up at 8:00 am Eastern Daylight Savings time. The meeting started at 8:30 am.

We got there just a few minutes late. Thank goodness, they had Santa's favorite snack. MILK AND COOKIES, of course.

After introductions and greetings from the organizers, we got on to the business of Santa.

First thing we did was take a special oath, promising to be the best Santa I can. You can see the all of the oath and its history here. The recitation and signing of this document put us into the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest signing of an oath. WOOOW!!!

Afterwards, we began to attend some classes on being a better Santa. My first class was historical information about early day Santas, 1800-1899. Santa Jr (Jim Morrison of Lancaster, Pa.) is the curator of the National Christmas Center, a museum dedicated to preserving the meaning of Christmas. If we have time, we may return through there on our way home.

During lunch we heard a Christian young man named Trevor Thomas who was very funny and entertaining. We attended his class on stage presence after lunch.

After the classes, we went to the trade show, where there were lots of products to help us to look and act better. We walked around for about two hours before we decided it was supper time.

I have pictures of the convention up on Flickr at www.flickr.com/photos/santa_tulsa.

Tomorrow will be a BIG day. We will be joining Saint Patrick for a big parade in his honor. There will be bands, floats, reindeer and Saint Patrick, Saint Nicholas, and lots and lots of Santa Clauses, Mrs. Clauses, and elves and helpers. So until tomorrow....

The meaning of Christmas is the Love of our Lord for us through His Son JESUS.

Santa and Mrs. Claus

(You can read more about Celebrate Santa 2009 on the official Celebrate Santa blog!)