Jolly Ol' Saint Nick

We bumped into this guy today while out and about.

I was a bit more cautious than my little sister.

She was quite happy to jump up on his lap, smile at him, pet his beard and coo for the camera. They do share a similar physique, as you may have noticed.

Instead, I enjoyed watching and smiling from afar. I did have a few questions I made Mom ask him. I wondered, for example, where the reindeer were. He told us that he only brought one who was parked in the roof. I spent some time after that trying to crane my neck into the just the right position to see him through the skylight. No luck, though. How did one reindeer pull such a heavy sleigh anyways?

I'm still pretty excited for him to stop by our house this month.