Tag: Reindeer

Anyway, Santa got wise once Blane came along and now all the reindeer are specially trained after Blane hand-picks us from the reindeer pre-school gym club. There are always a few back-up teams in case something should go wrong with the main team and all new male reindeer are called after us. So there’s Rudolf generation 1 down to the current Rudy who has just been picked and he’s generation X.

Of course all of us original guys have a special kind of magic so that we will never die but we do get a bit sick now and again which is when another generation deer takes over. It is possible for us to break bones and Donna had a really bad accident a few years back, she ended up having to lie flat on her back for a whole year! Poor girl. She was okay though, as she loves to eat chocolates and watch daytime TV. She quite enjoyed the rest and came back re-energised and ready for action.

Naughty tricks on Santa.

Although our job is very important we still have fun. Every year we like to play tricks on Santa.

One year we hid his sack full of toys, another year we put the sleigh on backwards – what a hoot! We’ve even unteathered our leads to the sleigh and taken off without him. Blitzen put a hedgehog on his seat on Christmas Eve 1924, it was hilarious! My favourite was the year we tied huskies to his sleigh instead and hid in the snow waiting to see his reaction – there were many Ho Ho Ho’s that Christmas Eve!

Santa plays a good few jokes on us himself! Last year as well as loading on to the sleigh all the presents he put a sack full of weights as well! We were trying for a good 10 minutes just to take off!

Anyway, it’s nearing Christmas now and we’re all in preparation – there’s lots to be done! No doubt we’ll be passing over your place very very soon. Hope all you little boys and girls have been nice this year!

Next time you leave out a plate of cookies for Santa remember all the deer that are working so hard to bring your pressies too and leave out a bit more for us than a mouldy old carrot would you?!

Happy Christmas!

“I’m the most famous reindeer of all, Rudolf. Sure I have a red nose but I’m really famous for my baklava which Santa and the elves can’t get enough of. Anyway, let me tell you a little bit about what it takes to make a special reindeer and some other stuff…”

It’s tough to be a reindeer

Okay, it’s not all about Santa you know. Us reindeers have to work really hard all the year round to make sure that the sleigh gets up there in the sky. He’s a big guy old Santa and it takes a lot of muscle to keep up the speed as we pull the sleigh, toys for several million kids and the bulky guy himself all around the world.

We have a fitness instructor who’s actually related to Coach Shane. Shane likes the sun but great great grandpa Blane came out to the snowy North Pole many many years ago ‘cause he couldn’t stand the heat. So he did not (as Sunset Cove history documented) die in the Second Sunset War.

Blane changed the way that reindeer are perceived by people today. Before he came along we were fed oats and water and just allowed to run loose in the fields behind the ice palace.

Blane taught us the importance of saunas, mixing our diet and playing ice hockey and volleyball as much as possible. He also convinced Santa to build a gym behind the swimming pool area and made sure that the elves sewed some decent tracksuits for us to wear when we’re working out.

The reindeer games were invented and Blane trained the winning team, led by my good self. That was how the gang that pull the sleigh got chosen in the first place. Before that Santa just used to call on any old deer to help him out over Christmas and things sometimes went really wrong.

Like the time Santa and his deer crashed in the Andes and had to eat the wrapping paper to stay alive. That was the year that kids all over the world thought that they had been really bad ‘cause Santa never showed up and they grew up with major chips on their shoulders and became non-believers. What a nightmare that was. And all because those dumb deer didn’t know their left from their right or their up from their down.”