italian santa is a balcony bloke

it is christmas eve and italian santa is hitting the windows and balconies hard. there are few chimmneys in the american sense of the word, so Santa has to use rope ladders to climb up walls to access apartments from milano to napoli.

they say too much travelling can make you fat. santa is the poster boy for frequent flyer fattitude. italy is 6 hours ahead of new york and the rest of the east coast and 9 hours ahead of san diego and the rest of the west coast. and by the time he travels to the usa, he is much fatter than he is in italy. did you notice how svelte he is on that rope ladder? donna c. must pack some serious chocolata calda on that transatlantic flight...the kind that is rich enough to satisfy a baby seal.

or maybe he gets fat after he gets to america. italian kids do not leave him milk and cookies the way american kids do. he might pack on all those pounds by the time he made it from maine to dc.