It's interesting, in Brazil christmas is in the middle of summer (it's summer now in Brazil) so we always celebrated with a big dinner outside on the 24th. Then at midnight, my aunt would dress as Santa. During that time, the whole family would look up at the sky and say they saw his sleigh. We would be looking up in the sky, looking for Santa then my aunt would show up from behind us. That always got the little kids because if you look up at the sky long enough, you always think you saw a star moving.