Santa Claus was wearing his late summer garb. Red shorts, long-sleeved red T-shirt with furry white stripe down the middle and a cute red baseball cap trimmed in white with a white pom-pom on his head, the Jolly One was almost ready to mount his ride.
Before being transported by pick-up truck to the launch point of his amazing journey, he donned, appropriately, a red helmet.
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