Operation Santa

Apparently our town has a Christmas tradition that to my knowledge has not happened in any of the other places that we have lived.  The fire and police department drive a float around to all of the different subdivisions (or communities as we call them in FL) and collect toys for those in need.  This takes about 6 different evenings.  The pictures are horrible.  The weather was about 45 degrees (it was a little warmer in our unheated home.)  We stayed outside for about 20 minutes waiting for this event.  Samuel ran back to the house to get something and missed the whole thing.  We walked back to the house, looked at the map and realized that the float would be exiting our neighborhood right where we saw it come in.  We raced back out to the street and waited another 20 minutes (Ben came driving home and watched with us) so that Samuel could witness the excitement.