Thursday, December 25, 2014

Christmas Eve!

Christmas Eve is a magical day at Santaland.  Because it's the day of Santa's big trip, but it's also the last time all the elves see each other until next season.  The North Pole is a big place, people.  We don't always see everyone when we go back there for the off season.

The day started as magically as it could at six in the morning because Cider left this message for Shortcake:
Shortcake has been worried about a particular problem for the last few days, and Cider knew it.  Shortcake saved the post-its.  Because Cider is awesome.

Because it was Christmas Eve,  there were cookies and gingerbread blondies and chocolate.  And pineapple.  It was the only fruit Shortcake ate all day.  

There were a lot of wee babes visiting Santa.  Some were 10 days old.  Some were two months.  A lot of first Christmases.  So adorable.

Shortcake and Peppercorn had their dance party to Michael Buble and the Puppini Sisters "Jingle Bells."  And then Santa decided to dance with them.
Then Santa danced with Jodi:

Managers wear fancy hats on Christmas Eve.
 Bob and Matt and his Grinch hat.
 General Krampus
Shortcake and Lisa and Lisa's fancy shoes

At the end of the night, while waiting to see if there were reshoots, before heading up to the North Pole, all the elves piled into Santa's house to hear stories of Christmas Past.  This doesn't happen every year, so it was a special moment.

Afterwards we all said our goodbyes.  And went home.
That's how short Shortcake is compared to Santa
 A Triple-Layer -Cake: Cupcake, Shortcake and Fruitcake
 Squeak and Shortcake selfie
 Dewdrop and Shortcake
 Shortcake and Ana - Ana is part of the stellar Housekeeping team we had this year
Shortcake and Krampus tried to take a selfie together, but Krampus is too tall.
So they tried again.
 Brian and Spritz
 Marzipan
 Robby and Shortcake
 Shortcake and Avalanche and... someone else
 Shortcake and Blip
Tony and Shortcake
This is what Peppercorn and Shortcake looked like after surviving the last few days together.  And a 12 hour Christmas Eve shift.
Peppercorn and Shortcake modeling their new Santaland hoodies.  Thanks Macy's!

Shortcake went home and ate Indian food and watched holiday movies.  It was a lovely end to the day.





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