Santa Claus Came to Town

I had been reading about it over the last two weeks. Santa Claus rides around in a fire truck throughout the neighborhood. I was trying to figure out when we could expect him in ours - because we saw him out of nowhere a few years back. It said he makes the rounds during the first week of December, but I still couldn’t pinpoint when and what time. A couple of nights ago we heard a commotion and ran to the balcony - only to see the tail lights of the fire truck sail past about a block away, only to continue on away from our building. It was a bit disappointing - especially because this time of the year we always close the blinds when it gets dark, and Santa shows up at night. I thought that was the end of it. Then last evening when we were preparing dinner, my husband said he thought he heard commotion again. So we ran to pull up the shade and ran to the balcony. This time the fire truck was coming towards us and Santa was waving to us. The next door dog was barking with excitement. The fire truck made a few little siren blasts - just to get people out of the house to look. There was just something about catching a glimpse of Santa. I’m glad we didn’t miss him after all.