Can reindeer really fly?

Of the hundreds of questions children have about Santa Claus, "Can reindeer really fly?" could be one of the most frequently asked.
Santa could have chosen many different ways to deliver the toys - airplane (but it wasn't invented yet), horse-drawn sleigh (but all the oceans would have to be frozen for that to happen); hot-air balloon (but you can never count on the air currents). In fact, delivering the toys by sleigh pulled by eight flying reindeer hadn't even occurred to Santa or the elves until one of the most important days in the history of the North Pole.
Right down the middle of Christmas Village at the North Pole runs the Lemonade Springs. Yes, you heard me right. Lemonade Springs. For quite a while, Santa and the elves didn't know of its magical qualities until Dasher, who by the way is the ornery reindeer of the bunch, happen to drink from the springs.
The elves witnessed something that they had never seen before. Dasher began to quiver and shake and all of a sudden he took off running, jumped high in the air and continued to go up. After hitting six chimneys, four roofs and breaking nine windows, he finally figured out how to turn and how to fly higher and zoom down over the elves causing them to hide behind the snowmen.
Santa heard the commotion from the elves and ran out of the kitchen where he was sampling a new chocolate chip cookie recipe Mrs. Claus was working on. With chocolate dripping from his chin, he couldn't believe his eyes. He then saw Dancer drink from the springs and up he went. Not to be outdone, the rest of the reindeer- Comet, Blitzen, Vixen, Donner, Prancer and Cupid - run over to the springs, lapped up the delicious liquid, and before you knew it, the sky was filled with reindeer.
It was then that Santa came up with the idea of using the reindeer to deliver the toys. There was just one problem. No one knew just how long the effects would last. After all, it would be a shame for Santa to crash land in the Amazon rain forest because there was no more flight left in the reindeer. So Santa instructed held reindeer elf Furball to conduct a series of tests to determine the longevity of the magical qualities of the Lemonade Springs.
He came up with the right amount lemonade that would be fed to the reindeer that would last the entire trip.
There has been only one mishap. In 1968 when Apollo 8 was orbiting the moon on Christmas Eve, the reindeer got loose and drank too much lemonade. Well you can guess what happened. Santa and the reindeer flew right out of the atmosphere and orbited the moon. One of the astronauts exclaimed, “Houston, this is Apollo 8. Please be advised there is a Santa Claus.” So ever since, the reindeer are kept in quarantine two weeks before the big trip.
So the answer to the question, "Can reindeer really fly?" is a resounding "Yes," as long as they drink from the Lemonade Springs that flow down the center of North Pole Village.