Your High Country Santa

The "audience" for an event involving Your High Country Santa can be range from one child in their home to hundreds of children at a school or public event. Each type of visit involves a different type of audience with different Santa activities. Your High Country Santa can adapt to and will work with you to make sure your audience has a magical and wonderful Christmas experience!

Your High Country Santa is a professionally trained, professionally attired Santa with a professional attitude who will work with you to make your private, corporate or civic Christmas event perfect. His given name is Mike Marcela. Mike is the Exceptional Children Program Administrator for Watauga County Schools. Overall he has 30 years of experience in education---20 as an administrator and 10 as a teacher of students with disabilities.

Your High Country Santa started portraying "the big guy" professionally in 2014 to bring the wonderful feelings of love, hope and Christmas spirit to children in the High Country of North Carolina. He is professionally trained through the International University of Santa Claus, has attended Clausfest 2014 and is a member of Clausnet. As part of his training, High Country Santa Mike has taken the Santa Claus Oath and strives to live its tenets in all that he does. Mike is a real bearded Santa with a real belly, real boots and professional appearance. Anyone can throw on a red suit, but that doesn't make them "Santa". Your best option to make your Christmas event perfect is to go with a professional Santa like Your High Country Santa.

What type of events would you book Your High Country Santa? The options really are only limited by your imagination, but for starters, a sample list of events is included below:

Home Visits

Tired of waiting in lines at the mall? Would you rather give your child a lifetime Christmas memory by having Santa make a special visit just to your house? The type of visit and activities during the visit is only limited by your imagination! Here are some typical types of home visits:

Private parties
Breakfast with Santa
“We Caught Santa!”—a Christmas Eve visit
Home visits/Story time with Santa
Home Photo shoots
Dinner with Santa

Community Ceremonies and Events

What better way to bring families together for the Holiday Season, and to bring out the Christmas Spirit than with an appearance from your own High Country Santa Mike?

Parades
Special Community events
School events
Day Care visits (child and adult events)
Hospital visits
Group homes visits
Senior Center/Assistive Living Centers
Tree-Lighting ceremonies
Church services/ceremonies
Christmas Downtown Celebrations

Corporate

Visits aren't just for kids. Looking for a fun way to say "thank you" to your employees or customers? Maybe Santa can help bring in customers for your holiday event. Make your event magical and surprise them with a personal visit from Your High Country Santa Mike.

Corporate parties and events
Christmas Tree farms
Retail events
Photo sessions
Mall and shopping center Santa
Paws with Claus events
Ribbon cuttings/Grand Openings
TV Commercials
Print Advertising
Product Promotion
Restaurant and hotel events

No matter whether you're a parent, business owner, event planner, homeowner's association, country club, church or school, no event is too large or too small. To ensure availability, visits should be scheduled as far in advance as possible.

Most visits can be arranged over the phone or via email. Other visits such as a "We Caught Santa" Christmas Eve visit require at list two or three meetings---one to preplan in the house or at the site and one for the event. Most High Country Santa gigs only require the host to provide a sturdy chair for Santa and the children to share and a table for Santa's bag....and if needed, some presents and/or candy canes for the children.