Here are some photos of people all over the world dressing in Santa Claus costumes for various events during the 2005 holiday season.


South Korean performers dressed in Santa Claus outfits take photos with a mobile phone before taking a ride on the 'Double Rock Spin' during a promotional event for the Christmas holiday season at the Everland amusement park in Yongin, about 50 km (31 miles) south of Seoul, December 13, 2005. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

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A Chinese girl tries on a Santa Claus costume on a dog at a clothes shop for pets in Shijiangzhuang, north China's Hebei province, December 12, 2005. Picture taken December 12, 2005. CHINA OUT REUTERS/China Newsphoto

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First lady Laura Bush visits with Santa Claus and New Orleans children during a Toys For Tots celebration at the Celebration Church in Metairie, La. Monday, Dec. 12, 2005. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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A Peruvian vendor attends to clients in his shop where figurines of Santa Claus are displayed before Christmas in Lima December 12, 2005. REUTERS/Pilar Olivares

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Youths dressed in Santa Claus costumes parade through a street in Panama City, December 11, 2005. Thousands of people head to the capital annually to participate in government-funded festivities around the Christmas holiday season. REUTERS/Alberto Lowe

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This undated recent photo provided by La Poste shows a Santa Claus visiting its postal office in the southwestern French town of Libourne. (AP/La Poste)

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Chilean Rigoberto Martinez, dressed as Santa Claus, exits from a voting booth in a public school in the city of Valparaiso on the Pacific coast December 11, 2005. Martinez said he has been voting dressed in this Christmas suit since 1989 when democracy was reinstated in Chile at the end of the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet. Chileans were voting on Sunday in presidential and congressional elections that could propel a woman into the presidency for the first time and hand the center-left coalition a fourth term to lead Latin America's star economy. REUTERS/Eliseo Fernandez

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A Santa Claus drinks beer in New York December 10, 2005. This Santa was participating with hundreds of others in the annual New York SantaCon, which involves hundreds of people in cheap Santa suits walking around the city, singing naughty carols, drinking, and generally spreading holiday cheer and mayhem. REUTERS/Seth Wenig

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This photo provided by Adventure Aquarium shows a SCUBA diver dressed like Santa Claus greeting a visitor at Adventure Aquarium in Camden, N.J. Santa will make special appearances during the aquarium's 'FISHMAS' celebration, Dec. 16 - 18 in the 760,000-gallon Ocean Realm exhibit. FISHMAS will also feature music, a 'Twelve Fish of FISHMAS' scavenger hunt and holiday treats. (AP Photo/Adventure Aquarium, Jason Staudenmayer)

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A hotel employee dressed in a Santa Claus outfit presents a gift to a bus passenger in Jakarta December 8, 2005. Christian make up almost 10 percent of Indonesia's 220 million people, making it the second biggest religion in this predominantly Muslim country, are taking preparation to celebrate Christmas. REUTERS/Dadang Tri

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A member of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), dressed as Santa Claus wearing a gas mask, protests in Hong Kong December 8, 2005, urging the public to go vegetarian in order to stop the spread of bird flu. The pro-animal group said both intensive 'factory' farms and smaller 'backyard' farms, common throughout Asia, pose a deadly risk of spreading the H5N1 virus to consumers. REUTERS/Bobby Yip

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A group of men dressed as Santa Claus display advertisements offering free Christmas cakes with the purchase of cellphones in Lima, Peru on Monday, Dec. 5, 2005. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)

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South Korean students dressed as Santa Claus wave during a graduation ceremony of a Love Santa Academy in Seoul, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2005. They will work at department stores as a part-time worker during the Christmas season. Christmas is one of the biggest holidays celebrated in South Korea with over half the population being Christians. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man)

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Tommy Gossett of Little Rock, Ark., dressed as Santa Claus, left, speaks with a fellow biker at Toy Hill, during the 21th Annual Toys For Tots Christmas Ride, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2005, in Little Rock, Ark. Over 2,500 motorcycles left Rodneys Cycle House and rode to Toy Hill at War Memorial Stadium to deliver toys to be distributed as Christmas gifts to needy children in the community. (AP Photo/Mike Wintroath)

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German student Patrick Ament, center, is supported by colleagues as he jumps to win the Santa Claus sackrace relay marathon in Dresden, eastern Germany, Saturday, Dec. 3, 2005. 17 German student teams covered a distance of 10 x 100 meters through downtown Dresden in this competition. (AP Photo/Matthias Rietschel)

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U.S. President George W. Bush greets Santa Claus, played by actor and former athlete Merlin Olsen, at the end of the Christmas Pageant of Peace on the Ellipse in front of the White House in Washington December 1, 2005. Bush briefly addressed the crowd before leading in the lighting of the National Christmas tree. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

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Several hundred students dressed as Santa Claus ring bells, wave, sing and dance during their annual meeting of the rent-a-Santa Claus service of Berlin's Universities in a hotel in Berlin November 29, 2005. The universities organized the rent-a-Santa Claus service for Christmas which costs about 28 euros ($33). REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

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A guinea pig wears a Santa Claus costume at an animal show in Moscow November 27, 2005. Moscow's Club of Friends of Guinea Pigs organised an exhibition of their favourite pets on Sunday that included a fashion show and a sprinting contest. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin

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People dressed as Santa Claus pose for a picture at the Europa Park leisure park in Rust, Germany November 26, 2005. More than 2,000 people came dressed as Santa Claus on Saturday, after the leisure park offered them free entrance, to try to brake the record for the largest meeting of Santas in the world. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler

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People dressed as Santa Claus enjoy a ride on a rollercoaster at the Europa Park leisure park in Rust, Germany, November 26, 2005. More than 2,000 people came dressed as Santa Claus on Saturday to Rust, where the leisure park was offering a free entrance to all of them, trying to break the record for the largest meeting of Santas in the world. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler

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A man dressed as Santa Claus stands next to a reindeer in Lapland. Norway will call in extra air traffic controllers for the Christmas rush as hundreds of thousands of tourists, primarily from Britain, take to the skies to visit Santa in Finland's far north.(AFP/LEHTIKUVA/File)

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Santas from Sweden (R) and Spain race on their sleighs pulled by reindeers during a competition in the Santa Claus Wintergames in northern Swedish town of Gallivare, November 20, 2005. Santa Claus Wintergames is an annual gathering of Santas from all over the world. The Santas compete in typical Santa-sports, including chimney-climbing, porridge-eating, kick-sledding and reindeer-racing. This year competition was won by Estonian santa Aare Rebban. REUTERS/Pawel Kopczynski

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A knife-wielding Santa Claus holds a bloody head outside the home of Mildred Castellanos and Joel Krupnik, Dec. 13, 2005, in New York. (AP/Kathy Willens)

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HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL !

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