In the spirit of the holidays…

NORAD, the North American Air Defense Command (the U.S. folks who track missiles) has been tracking Santa’s progress on Christmas Eve, ever since a misprinted phone number for contacting Santa was placed in a Sears Roebuck advertisement. This “wrong number” put boys and girls through to the Commander-in-Chief’s operations “hotline”.  The Director of Operations at the time, Colonel Harry Shoup had his staff use their radar to begin checking Santa’s progress from the North Pole and they have been providing this service to kids everywhere ever since.

This year, you too can track Santa’s adventures from your mobile phone using Google Maps for mobile. If you have an iPhone, T-Mobile G1, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, or Nokia phone with Google Maps, just search for “Norad Santa” to see Santa’s location on his way to your home. (Note: You’ll have to resubmit your query whenever you want to update Santa’s location).

If you have a supported phone but do not yet have Google Maps, you can download it for free at the Norad website or from the above Google link. If you’d also like to follow Santa’s progress on Christmas Eve from your home computer, go to this website (http://www.noradsanta.org/) to follow the action.

Good luck tracking Santa snackers, and I wish you all a safe and happy holiday season!

Happy Holiday Snacking!

Lindsey