Earlier this week I got an email informing us that the "real" Santa would no longer be at Macy's Department store this year. We have been visiting this Santa for 27 years! Of course I was a little distressed by the news! I headed over to their Facebook page and let them know I was disappointed in Macy's for hiring non-naturally bearded Santas! Shame on them! How dare they mess with our family's tradition.
A reporter from The Oregonian saw my comment and contacted me and asked if she could interview me over the phone. She did and it was fun. I also sent h er some of our family's Santa photos. I knew it would be in the paper the next morning. I got my paper and started looking through the Living section, the Metro section and no article! Imagine my surprise when I turned the paper over and there we were on the front page!! It must have been a slow news day in Portland.
You can go here to read the article from the paper.
Later that day I got a call from my neighbor Debbie that she had just a picture of us on the noon news on Channel 8 - guess they picked up the story.
And then later in the afternoon I got an email from Shauna Parsons, an anchor on Channel 12 asking if they could send a reporter over to interview us. I said sure and then scrambled to get the house picked up. I was in the middle of Christmas decorating and that is always a huge mess. Fortunately one tree was up and decorated.
The cameraman and reporter arrived and we had a fun interview. You can see the interview here.
So I guess we were famous - for a little while at least!!
1 comment:
Another fun tradition! THANKS for sharing. Ben would absolutely love the TUBA DAY! Merry Christmas!
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