Sunday, December 26, 2010

Santa rides a fire truck?

Okay, so on Christmas eve evening I was letting out a dog to do what dogs do twice a day, when I heard sirens.  And I mean a lot of sirens.  Close by.  I thought:  Fire? Robbery?  Drug bust?  They were on another block, and I could see the lights through the trees, but couldn't tell what was going on.  They stopped in one place for awhile and then moved off.  They turned onto the street I was on, moving very slowly with the sirens on,  and I saw:  a police car, a fire truck, and a ladder truck with Santa perched on top.  They had rigged up a spotlight so you could see him, and he was waving at everyone as he went by.

I'm guessing the sleigh was in the shop. :)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

They do this every year. You never saw them going by mom & dad's place as a kid?

Vicky said...

Nope. I looked online and this seems to be fairly common, but I don't ever remember seeing it done.

Anonymous said...

Huh. Admittedly, they didn't go by mom & dad's much at least until I was in high school, so I'm not too surprised that you missed it.