Alaska SeaLife Center AmeriCorps Adventures!: Sliding onto Santa's Sleigh in Seward!

For the past few weeks, we have been working with the Seward Fire Department, helping them with their Angel Tree program. Angel Tree provides gifts to children who otherwise would not recieve anything for the holidays. It was a lot of fun to see the generosity of the town- we had so many donated gifts, each child (and there were probably about 100) was able to recieve 2-3 things, including toys, clothing, books, and learning games. John and Jill at the SeaLife Center were the main orchestrators of this program and allowed us to be very involved with the process of calling families, sorting and organizing gifts, wrapping, labeling, and then finally delivering the gifts around town! How you ask?! On a fire rescue truck, OF COURSE! The three of us jumped in a firetruck with Santa himself, strapped on our seat belts, and hand delivered over 20 bags of gifts to the kids. It was a really fun night and even though a few of us slipped on the ice (multiple times...) it was great riding around with the firefighters and watching how excitied the kids were when we showed up at their doors!