This site is big in our house. We have used this site to track Santa for a good few years now. Madison shouts, "Look! It's Santa! It's Santa!" This site gives little videos of Santa in each time zone so that you can monitor his progress on his way to your house. The best part of the site: As a parent, you now have proof that Santa is on his way!
This article is from the Associated Press that I took from Yahoo that explains how all this started. Kind of interesting that it was all a big mistake back in 1955!
NORAD Marks 50th Year of Tracking Santa
Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The military agency dedicated to detecting any threats against the United States and Canada is marking the 50th year of reporting Santa's sleigh ride.
With help from several civilian companies, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, operates a Web site reporting Santa's progress and helps answer telephone calls and e-mails from people around the world.
The reported track began at the North Pole, of course, and NORAD said Santa Claus was "spotted" in New Zealand, followed by Australia, Japan, China, Nepal and India.
Last year, the tracking Web site at http://www.noradsanta.org received 912 million hits from 181 countries, and the Santa Tracking Operations Center answered nearly 55,000 phone calls on Christmas Eve.
According to NORAD lore, the tradition began in 1955 when Sears-Roebuck placed an ad in The Gazette in Colorado Springs telling kids to dial a number if they wanted to talk to Santa.
But the number was one digit off. When the first call came to NORAD's predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command, Col. Harry Shoup told an eager child he would check the radars for Santa.
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