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Great Places to See Santa

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Track Santa, wherever you are

Finally, and perhaps the most exciting opportunity to see Santa: wherever you are on Christmas Eve, you can track the progress of Santa and his reindeer, at the Norad web site.

NORAD (the North American Aerospace Defense Command) has been tracking Santa since way back in the fifties, when a child in Colorado dialed a wrong number for a Santa call-in line, got the Continental Air Defense Command --NORAD's precursor-- on the line instead, and asked about Santa's flight.

Things took off from there... and now the Norad Tracks Santa web site gets millions of hits on Christmas Eve. Every year the display at the site gets better and better.

Make sure you visit the site before Christmas Eve, to make sure you have the right plug-ins to display Santa's flight!

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