Father Christmas websites

[Hulababy]

Someone mentioned one of these sites the other day but I can't find it.

I mean the site where you can track Father Christmas during his travels on Christmas Eve. Does anyone knopw the site address?

Thanks you!

here
it is in ds's favourites
am sad

THanks popsycal. DD is really starting to get into the Father Christmas idea and thought this might be fun to show her where he is with her baby dolly on the night, especially as we will be in (no more oubs for us for a while!).

She will love all this site too, and I have found the tracker at the bottom. Cheers.

Well, got to go. School finished 5 or 10 minutes ago, need to go and get DD from nursery - if I can drag her away.

Hope you are feeling a bit better today too.

It's at norad - fantastic site

From that site, the reasons the tradition started:

"This is the 49th season that NORAD and its predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) have tracked Santa. The tradition began after a Colorado Springs store's advertisement for children to call Santa on a special "hotline" included a 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. In 1958, the governments of Canada and the United States decided to create a bi-national air defense command for the North American continent called the North American Air Defense Command. Canada and the U.S. believed they could better defend North America together as a team instead of separately.

The Command carried out its first Santa tracking in 1958 after inheriting the tradition from CONAD. Since that time, Canadian and American men and women who work at NORAD have responded to phone calls from children personally. Additionally, media from all over the world call NORAD on Christmas Eve for updates on Santa's location. Last year this Web site was visited by millions of people who wanted to know Santa's whereabouts. This year, the information is provided in six languages.

NORAD relies on many volunteers to help make Santa tracking possible. Many people at Cheyenne Mountain and Peterson Air Force Base spend part of their Christmas Eve with their families and friends at NORAD's Santa Tracking Operations Center in order to answer phones and provide Santa updates to the many thousands of children who call in."

I love the Dancing Disco Santa on that first site popsycal. DD has been dancing along with him and thinks it is very funny.