Monday 8 December 2008

Christmas in Melbourne

It's the time of the year again where individuals from various background get together to celebrate one festival, i.e. Christmas!

As usual Myer in Bourke Street will always have their yearly window display for Christmas. This year, it is based on a book by Alan Snow called "How Santa Really Works". It shows the process of how Santa gets his helpers and the different stages he has to go through in order for the presents to be delivered.

The first window start with "Who actually helps Santa?"

There are 3 parts to this window. The first part shows the elves has to study to do a specific job.

Then there is training for the specific job.

After the elves has gone through the training, they were graduated.

The 2nd window display goes on to: "How does Santa know what you want?"

It shows lots of speech bubble by the elves and letters from the children.

The 3rd window display shows "Where are all the toys made?"

This one you can see the stages of making toys. If you look closely, you can see how they make a teddy bear, starting with sowing the shape of the hand, leg and body. Then putting in the cotton, follow by sowing all the parts together. Lastly, sowing the head to the body.

The 4th window display shows "Where are all the toys kept?"

The 5th window display shows "Who organises all the presents?"

The last window display asked "Surely Santa can't get all the presents in his sleigh?"

Since we were in the city, we went for a walk down Swanson Street to see the Christmas Tree which was beautifully light up in red and green.