IT was the 23rd of December and Sarah and John were very excited.

"2 more days, 48 hours, 2880 minutes. That's 172800 seconds", said Sarah.

"Yep! I like Santa, He gives us presents", said John.

"You two! Dinner!", shouted mum. John and Sarah hurried to the kitchen where a beautiful aroma filled the air.

Within 10 minutes the plates were as sparkling as they were before dinner, John and Sarah went out to play. It had snowed the day before so Sarah wanted to build a snowman but John wanted to build a model of Santa. So very soon in the end the garden stood two snowmen/snow-Santa (one with a very long beard)!!

John called his a work of art, Sarah called it a hump of snow. It was quite strange because Sarah was sure she heard a cough.

The next day john and Sarah went out to play. Suddenly if out of nowhere a man jumped out of a bush. He was wearing a red and white suit just like....

"Santa..." said John

"Yes. I need your help. The elves are ill and I need 100 more toys TONIGHT!" said Santa.

"Sure we'll help you", said Sarah.

"Get on Rudolph then," said Santa. So off they went gliding in the sky heading for an adventure.

With the help of Rudolph they were there in no time. "I need to make 50 dolls & 50 crocodiles" said Santa getting his chocolate biscuits and eggnog.

Within two hours Santa came back to congratulate them on their success.

"Well done you two", said Santa. "You'd better get home now."

So when Sarah and John got home they told their mum and dad everything.