Have you ever heard of SantaCon? I hadn't until two weeks ago, when Stephen brought to my attention that we should try to get one together in Frankfurt. What is SantaCon, you might ask? Dressing as Santa and going around town drinking/eating/making merry, naturally. We were a little last-minute about it all and so didn't achieve the heroic numbers of some other Santa events, but we and our friend Jill still got plenty of delightful comments. Particular favorites: "Three Santas? I thought there was only one!" and "But Nikolaustag (St. Nicholas Day) was two days ago!" -- because clearly Santa only appears in public on one day in Germany, the land of Very Specific Traditions. Fun things to do while dressed as Santa: drink Glühwein, take pictures with your adoring public, eat Kartoffelpuffer, ride a carousel, be turned away at the door of a bar (!), go to a different bar and lend the bartender your Santa beard so he can terrorize his coworkers. Pretty solid work for just three Santas.
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