Santa's Village

I thought I would treat the whole family by taking them to Santa’s Village. This is a Chipmunk scale winter theme park for kids (as well as adults young at heart.) Usually there are all sorts of winter related activities like sledding, ice skating and my favorite ski jumping. Despite being located near the north pole, Santa’s Village had a “minor” problem: NO SNOW! This climate change problem is worse than I thought.

When we arrived there, the village manager got an emergency call from the big man himself. Apparently, Santa’s sleigh runway didn’t have snow either. The elves had no idea how to get Santa’s sleigh to take off bare ground. There was concern that Christmas was going to be cancelled. Santa wanted to know if the good folks at the theme park could come up with a solution.

Experiment #1 – I hopped in the driver seat while Santa tried to give it a big push. That didn’t work so well.

Experiment #2 – This time I tried helping Santa push the sleigh. We got it to move a few feet but it was a lot of effort.

Experiment #3 – Lets try things the old fashion way. I will pull it like a reindeer. Okay, now I know why so many reindeer are needed to pull the sleigh.

 Experiment #4 – I tried praying for a Christmas miracle

 Experiment #5 – While taking a break, I was thinking about football and how some football fields had Astroturf. Then it hit me like a snowball, we needed “astro-snow.” I conferred with the elf engineering team, and they used Santa’s industrial 3-D printer to make the astro-snow. It worked perfectly!

Santa was so amazed at how I save Christmas, he crossed me off the naughty list (phew!) He asked me what I wanted for Christmas. I said I wanted to meet a real reindeer.