Santa Came to our Town

Only in Highland, I say that because until we moved here I had never heard (literally) or saw anything like this. Well on Thursday December 17th after the kids went to bed and dad had gone to the gym, Mom heard a lot of noise outside. She went out to see what was the matter. She heard lots of sirens and saw a Helicopter with its light shining down. Could it be, well it is the right time of the year, and he comes every year. She decides to get the kids out of bed at 8:30pm and take a ride in the car. Sure it was late and cold, but what the heck. Kids are only young and excited about this sort of stuff for a short time. So we venture off and call dad on his cell phone so he does not come home and his family is not there.
We followed the helicopter light and sure enough it was a Santa sighting on his flat bed truck with loud music followed by 4 Fire Engines and what looked to be like the whole Highland police force (well not really). We pulled over in front of the Bogh's house (Michael & Carolyn), who never came out, I even called them. The line of cars was long. The kids did not want to get out of their seats. It was loud. Allyson hates loud noises! We called the Tanners to let them know but they had already seen him. We then followed them up to the Tanner's, how lucky are the Bogh's and Tanner's, Santa went down both streets. So we continue to follow to a rest stop for Santa. Dad finds us and we get out of the car. We get up to Santa and Gavin decides that this is not the year to see him. He hides his face in moms neck. Tristan and Allyson waived at him but with the crowd could not get real close. By this time we realize that we did not grab the camera. Oh well, maybe next year.