Remember how Dasher's harness was missing last Friday and the elves were looking all over R.H. (Reindeer Headquarters) for it? Over the weekend they searched in the equipment shed, through the huge piles of straw, up high, down low, over here, over there...and no harness anywhere! This morning, Elroy (he's the one in charge of R.H.) had to go to Santa about this missing equipment.
Right after breakfast, Elroy broke the news to Santa. He said he was really nervous to tell him because he felt like he made such a huge mistake. Santa stood up from his big red chair and walked over to Elroy. He knelt down, put his hand on Elroy's shoulder and said...
"Dear Elroy, I know you all tried very hard to find it. Sometimes things get misplaced but I like to think of it this way, it is tucked in a place that we simply have not looked yet. I am certain that if we all work together we will find Dasher's harness."
As always, Santa knew exactly what to do. Santa organized each of the 150 elves working around Santa's Workshop and we all began looking for Dasher's harness. Even Santa joined in! After about 30 minutes, we heard Santa shout out in his cheery voice, "Ho, Ho, Ho!" and we all came running to the pole to see what was going on. Oh yeah, the 'pole' is our meeting zone here at Santa's Workshop. It's a red and white striped pole that sits directly on top of the world, the real Northpole!
When we all got there, we saw Santa holding Dasher's harness! It was found! What fantastic news, but you'll never guess where he found it.
Santa had completely forgot that after last year's big Christmas delivery, one of Dasher's jingle bells fell off while the reindeer were flying over the ocean and so he asked Mrs. Claus if she would add a new one in its place. That's right, Dasher's harness was in Mrs. Claus's sewing room all along, just waiting to be repaired.
What a great day!
Signing off,
Elroy