These Guys Must Believe!

A few days ago I heard a brief news item about the 51st Annual World Santa Claus Congress. This is an international gathering of the representatives of Santa Claus from a number of countries around the world. They have been meeting annually for more than 50 years. Why that's almost as many years as I have seen! Why haven't I heard about this yet? It seems Santa Claus is gathering his representatives from around the world at an amusement park in Copenhagen, Denmark. This 3 day event attracts Santas from countries as far away from Denmark as Russia, the United States, and Japan. As this event seems to have grown from a local Summer Festival, most of these Santas have come from a number of the Scandinavian Countries. Most of the news stories covering this event were dated Monday, July 21, 2008 and the festival went through Wednesday. Santa took this opportunity to practice some of his Christmas Holiday skills such as belly shaking chuckles and Christmas tree decorating. The Santas were also able to discuss some of the more important issues facing Santa Claus today like “How do we get into people’s homes when there are no chimneys?" asks Fred Rootveld, a Dutch Sinterklaas. For more information about Santa Claus and this important news item you may follow some of the following links:

Reuters India

ABC News

Washington Post

USA Today

For more information about Scandinavia you may follow this link:

Scandinavian Tourist Boards

Now you know how Santa Claus spends his summer vacation! Please remember that Santa has given at least a portion of his summer vacation time to help prepare himself for making your Christmas Holiday a more cheerful and memorable occasion.