Christmas Capers

Bambi Brook walks camels Nina, left, and Sarah, from the Radio City Music Hall "Christmas Spectacular," in New York's Rockefeller Plaza Dec. 10, 2002. Bambi's company, Dawn Animal Agency, provides creatures for film and television. The animals in the Christmas show rotate with others that live on 250 acres in Westtown, N.Y., about 75 miles from Manhattan.

South Knox Elementary School first-grader Haley Kelley wears a bird mask while waiting to go on stage during the school Christmas program Dec. 10, 2002, in Verne, Ind. The musical program featured the kindergarten and first-grade classes.

Jandy, a polar bear, carries his present, a festively wrapped packed of fish, at the San Francisco Zoo Dec. 7, 2002. The animals were given presents for Christmas.

Scrooge scolds a passer-by for wishing him a merry Christmas from a second floor window during the Dickens Olde Fashioned Christmas Festival in downtown Holly, Mich. Dec. 1, 2002.

Maxine Osetinsky watches the Seattle Christmas parade in downtown Seattle Nov. 29, 2002. Thousands of people came down to Seattle to watch the traditional morning parade.

Joe Blaha, stands near his 1/40th-scale Eiffel Tower replica Dec. 9, 2002, in his Arden Hills, Minn. front yard. A plumber by trade, Blaha used construction rebar and 200 hours of effort to complete the 23-foot replica of the Paris landmark.

Dressed as Santa Claus, Luke McNamee plays a Christmas song on his saxophone during the 20th Annual Troy Victorian Stroll Dec. 8, 2002, in Troy, N.Y.

The Grinch makes an appearance on the Eastern New Mexico University-Roswell float during the Electric Light Parade Dec. 7, 2002, in Roswell, N.M.

Santa waves to the crowd from the top of a Kelly and Miller Bros circus elephant Dec. 7, 2002, in Hugo, Okla., during the annual Christmas parade.

Elvis impersonator Yancy Prine sings "Blue Christmas" from atop the Petal Moose Lodge float during the Petal Christmas Parade in Petal, Miss. Dec. 7, 2002.

Pattie Wyatt sings Christmas carols as her dog Bubba James, a chihuahua, takes a snooze at the Christmas celebration in Gaffney, S.C. Dec. 6, 2002.

Dressed as Christmas gifts, Jerry McCoy, right, and his wife Mary, second from right, along with other family and friends, participate in the 20th annual Jingle Bell Run & Walk to benefit the downtown YMCA's Partners of Youth Campaign Dec. 2, 2002, at Sam Houston Park in Houston.

Lily Callahan, 3, thinks hard about what to ask Santa Claus to bring for Christmas while visiting the Carrolltowne Mall in Eldersburg, Md. Nov. 30, 2002.

Cooper Hamby, 2, left, is not too thrilled with the Legendary Santa as his brother Jake Hamby, 4, waits patiently to tell Santa what he would like for Christmas Nov. 30, 2002 at the Greater Richmond, Va. Convention Center.