It was the last day of school before the Christmas holiday. The classes were over…we were happy thinking of the Christmas tree, the Christmas dinner, the Santa Claus’ presents and of course at Jesus’ birth…the teacher left the classroom and we remained for some minutes to share our best wishes for Christmas, to talk about the presents that we would like to receive and what we would offer. After several minutes we decided to go home. But a strong golden light rushed in the classroom. We were thunderstruck. Two angels appeared and told us that very soon we would go on an unforgettable journey. After saying this, they shook their wings and draped us in a white veil. The angels grabbed it, they turned around and like by a magical trick we were sliding on a crystal sledge which soon floated on the fluffy clouds, dragged by twelve unicorns. We were dumb of wonder, listening to the magical harp sounds. We looked at the starry sky and the land left behind us. We crossed mountains, seas, oceans .We left the planet, the galaxy and soon we are arrived in other world. The sledge entered through a curtain of icicles…and a chilly fairy tale land lay in front of our wide-open eyes: huge mountains covered with a tinsel snow, iced valleys, firs gilded with balls, tinsels and thousands of multicoloured lights, snowmen, wood and stone chalets…
We were almost frosty when the sledge got down and stopped in front of a big chalet lighted by lamps. Around it, a Christmas paradise lay and even the atmosphere was heralding the holiday. An old man with long, grey hair and beard, dressed in red clothes accompanied by a beautiful lady opened the door. Behind him appeared several elves with green helmets.
“Santa!” we cried.
“Welcome, my dear kids! Get in the house! You are frozen.
When we entered, we felt the smelt of the resin perfume and the warmth coming from the fireplace heating our cheeks the house was so hospitable, more beautiful than we ever imagined. The Christmas ornaments, the toys which decorated every corner of the house and the table garnished with all kinds of goodies impressed us.
“Have a sit and let’s taste this delicious meal prepared by my dear wife! You must be hungry”, said Santa.
“Yes we are!” we replied. This journey and the cold brought us a wolf’s hunger.
The dinner was indeed more than delicious. After we finished the meal we started to talk.
“How was your journey?” asked Santa Claus
“Amazing!” we said.
“I’m glad to hear this!” Said Santa
“We are impressed, astonished. It was the best thing that happened in our entire life. We
had never imagined this. A great surprise. But Santa, why did you do this?”
“Oh, my dear kids! You know… I love you all. And you are pretty wise kids, but you get
bored very fast when you have to do the same things.
“Yes Santa! You are right…” we admitted.
“And school is boring. At home too… But here you can’t get bored.”
“Yes it’s cool here! Santa, where are we? Where is this fairy land situated?”
“Oh… oh… on another planet, far away from the Earth, billions of light years’ distance.
“Oh my God! It must be very far away. We have never heard about this planet! It’s not
mentioned in any geography book!”
“It’s an unknown planet, situated in a remote Galaxy.” Said Santa
“This is fascinating! Cool! We’ve found a new planet! We will be famous in the
entire world!
“When you return home you won’t know the way and nobody will believe you!”
“And what’s the name of the planet?” we enquired. “Santa’s Land?”
“No”
“Frosty Paradise?”
“Hmm…no.”
“I know: Snow’s Land.”
“No, kids.”
“But Santa…we don’t know”
“You know…think better. What do we celebrate in winter?”
“Christmas! Christmas Land!”
“Good! This is Christmas Land!”
“And does it look like that all year or do you have also spring, summer and autumn?”
“We have only winter. But we celebrate Christmas in the same period with you. We spend the rest of the year preparing the presents.”
“This is so nice. We would like to help you! You are so lucky to live here! You have snow all the time! But it is so cold.”
“Yes, but we have got used to it.”
“Santa, tell us, please, which plants grow and which animals live in this chilly land?”
“Hmm… you are interested in biology.”
“Yes, we are!”
“So, we have here widespread forests of firs, moss and mistletoe. Here live deer, little birds, white foxes and rabbits, polar bears and penguins.”
“We will meet Rudolph, the red nose reindeer?”
“Yes you will. But not only Rudolph.”
“It’s late! You must sleep! Tomorrow we start the final preparations before Christmas.
“Ok. We agree! We are so tired. Thank you, Santa!
“You are welcome my dear. The pleasure was mine. But now go to your beds!”
“Good night, Santa!”
We followed Santa’s wife. She led us in a large room with several beds. We put on our funny reindeers pyjamas, and we got in the bed. But we didn’t asleep. We decided to pray and to thank God for this wonderful surprise. We felt that this was the best thing happened in our lives. We were so curious what the next days would offer us. Finally we fell asleep. It was a sweet and restful sleep.
We woke up early in the morning, ready new experiences and adventures. We had breakfast, prepared by Mrs Claus…an excellent one. After this Santa read the program to us.
“Today we start with a visit to the toys’ workshop. We have to establish the last details. After, we go to the ranch. You will meet their Rudolph and the others reindeers. We will take them and go to the polar area. We will see the polar bears and penguins.”
“Yuppy!” we cheered.
“We will spend there several hours.”
“We agree. We’ve always dreamed of this moment!”
“Later, we’ll go to the rink.”
“But we can’t skate.”
“You can learn. At the beginning you will fall down but it will be very funny. You will enjoy this. We return in the evening, we eat and we sleep. Ready?”
“Ready! Let’s go!”
At the workshop we saw the elves making a lot of beautiful toys…we laughed a lot at the funny elf who tripped over Santa’s stick. There we met Rudolph. Its nose is really very red. We became very good friends. The other reindeers are also very nice. They led us in the forest where we fed the little birds and the deer. From there we went to the polar area. There, the landscape impressed us: the huge icebergs, the shinny ice in which the Iced-sun (the twin brother of the sun) mirrored its beams. We played with the bears and with the penguins. We didn’t expected them to be so friendly. A bear cub was sleeping on his mother’s back…it was so sweet…his white hair shone in the solar light. But the most exciting moment of the day was a penguins’ wedding. The male was so careful with his wife…a true gentleman.
The time flew so fast that we can’t realise…and we got late to the meal. Mrs Clause chid Santa. We were upset. But they reconciled after we explained the situation to Mrs Claus. And Santa kissed his wife. It was a romantic moment. But we ate the food cold.
After the siesta we went to the rink. Yes, we fell down many times as Santa predicted, but we had fun, we laugh a lot. Finally we could stay up. We got many bruises but it worth. We spent there all the evening.
After dinner we fell asleep. The fresh air and the skating struck us down.
Next morning Santa troubled to awake us. We were so tired.
“Get up! It’s eleven o’ clock!”
We ate in a hurry. We had to be at the workshop at twelve o’clock to supply it. We were late. When we arrived there some elves were sleeping, others were playing cards, others who had drunk boiled wine got drunk and two of the naughtiest were throwing petards near the fireplace.
“You are fired!” Santa shouted scornfully.
You had to see the Santa’s face when he caught them. He was so furious. But we calmed him down and we convinced him to forgive them. In fact it was our fault.
We begged Santa to take us on a trip in the mountains. He accepted. We walked. Even if Santa is about 2000 years older than us, we got tired sooner. But you know, Santa has magical power and this explain everything. We played with the snow, we fought with snowballs, made angels and snowmen. Santa helped us to build an igloo.
Before going to sleep that night, we laughed again at Santa’s reaction in the moment in which he saw his elves. We woke up early in the morning but Santa told us to stay home, to talk with Mrs Claus, because he had to solve some problems. So we spent all morning helping the lady prepare the meal, the boys lit the fire and we sang some carols. We remained astonished when we heard Mrs Claus singing our traditional carols. She said that she knew all the Christmas traditions..
When Santa turned back he brought us several dresses and dress suits. We looked so nice in those garments and miss Claus helped us make up and to dress our hair. We were very elegant. But when we saw Mister and Mrs Claus coming we were amazed. They were so lovely.
We were ready. Then Santa called Rudolph and we get in a luxurious sledge plated with ruby. We stopped in front of a huge built by ice and lighted by thousands of golden lights. At the entry we were rendezvous by an elegant man.
-Welcome to the “Icicle Hotel”!
We entered the luxurious building with crystal walls lit up by an impressive chandelier. We found that we were attending the “Icicle Hotel”, the event of the year. After the hotel president’s speech , the wonderful show of fireworks, we visit the hotel’s inner, we dance , we talk with Santa Claus friends , really wise persons , but very old in comparison with us, all exceeded 2000 years, we received very good advises, we tasted the excellent food, we toast in Santa’ s honour. The Queen of the ball was without any doubt the charming Mrs Claus.
Late in the morning we went home:
- Did you enjoy the party? asked Santa.
- Yes, very much, a wonderful party.
We slept until fifteen o’clock. It was already Christmas Eve. Santa took the boys to the workshop to load the presents and the girls left home to help Mrs Clause to prepare the Christmas dinner. They found a lot of cooking secrets. When the boys came to the house smelt of cinnamon, baked apples powdered whit sugar, cakes and other goodies.
We got in the sledge and we start our story journey. First of all we passed to the poor children, where we decorated the Christmas tree, and leave the presents, after to the wise children, to our parents to put on their pillows some notices saying: “We are with Santa Claus. We’ll come back tomorrow.”
When we finally finished our funny job we returned to the Christmas Land. There we listened to the traditional carols and Santa Claus’ legend. He was sad when he remembered that he didn’t received Mary and Joseph in his house and Jesus Christ had to be born in a stable.
After this we said “Good bye!” to Santa, to Miss Claus, to the elves, to Rudolph and to the whole Christmas Land. We promised them that we would be wiser and we thanked for the unforgotten holiday they offered us. And we came back on the Earth, happier, with wonderful remembrances to recount to our grandchildren.
By
Santa’s Fan Club
