Eastern Europe

We are currently at one of our European Replenishment Centers in eastern Europe. Due to security reasons, I can not tell you the exact location. I had to wait until we landed here as we have been using the back-up communications system exclusively for communication to the North Pole HQ. While the reindeer are being fed and the sleigh re-loaded, the technicians are looking at our communications system. They are confident we'll be back to our primary communications by the time we leave here.

As we suspected might be the case, we are arriving here in eastern Europe just as the cold front hits. We are running smack into it. We are plenty comfortable though. Africa was quite warm... so its good to be back in the cool weather. Plus my coffee is keeping me plenty warm... I'm on about my 15th mug! The reindeer all report they are feeling good. In fact, Rudolph wanted me to send a message that he says "Merry Christmas!" to all the kids. He didn't want me to tell you this, but he and the other reindeer LOVE apples. If you have an apple you can leave out for them, they would very much appreciate it. In fact, if you have to choose, I'd rather you leave the reindeer an apple than leaving me cookies or other sweets.

Ok... I'm getting the signal that communications are back up and we are ready to go. I'll post again soon!