Fruit and Cheese Day!

 The fruit and cheese.  There was more cheese than fruit.  We had cheddar and stilton with apricot (Spatula described it as "a picnic in my mouth,") and cheddar chocolate and blue cheese.  Shortcake brought clementines and bananas for the fruit.  Santa brought special coffee, and the donuts (below).  'Cause it's not Santaland without donuts.

Fruit & Cheese Day was so successful, Santa wanted to do it again next week.  Maybe on Dec. 18th.

It was also very hot in the village.  There's a cold front sweeping the nation (one of the few days Shortcake was glad to be in New York and not Chicago - -11 degrees Fahrenheit before wind chill is COLD), so the high in New York was 25 degrees.  But Macy's can't turn on the air conditioner blowers unless the outside temperature is above 28 degrees.  So the Village was a sweltering sauna.  Poor Santa.  He was so sweaty and thirsty all day. Shortcake made a point to check on him often.

There's one thing Santa does that drives Shortcake nuts.  Sometimes, when she's moving him from one room to another, he'll slam the door behind her.  He thinks it's funny.  Shortcake is not amused.  Santa finds this even funnier.