The
Three Wishes team will travel all over the
US, playing Santa to kids wishing for everything from
a snow in sunny Los Angeles to a chance to visit Sesame
Street in person.
An eight-year-old boy named Colton who suffers from
Retinitis Pigmentosa gets a chance to see some famous
sights in New York before he completely loses his
vision from the disease.
A
nine-year-old boy from Michigan who was diagnosed
with Hodgkin's Lymphoma meets his hero and inspiration,
Mario Lemieux, the famous hockey star who suffered
from the same disease and beat it.
Two
aspiring young singers from Ohio who have formed their
own band get a trip to Nashville, where one of the
surprises awaiting them is spending time in a recording
studio with Grammy Award winner LeAnn Rimes.
An 11-year-old athlete from Michigan who dreams of
having a famous soccer player coach her team gets
a surprise visit from three-time Olympic medalist
and two-time World Cup champion Brandi Chastain, while
a nine-year-old boy from Virginia who has faced enormous
health challenges gets his Christmas wish to be pilot
for a day.
Another
little girl's dream comes true when she gets to meet
her favorite Sesame Street character - Cookie Monster
- in person, and an eight-year-old dinosaur enthusiast
gets a chance to go on a real archeological dig in
South Dakota with famed paleontologist Paul Sereno.
In
the spirit of the season, many children make wishes
for others. Three Louisiana girls wish for a Christmas
miracle - to see their Aunt Rhonda, who is confined
to a wheelchair, walk again - and their wish is granted
as they see her take her first steps. A selfless little
girl in Los Angeles wishes to help her cousins in
Louisiana replace all the toys they lost in Hurricane
Katrina, while another young girl wants to surprise
her friend, Summer - who is recovering from cancer
- with a snowy winter wonderland at her home in sunny
Los Angeles.
A
10-year-old California girl surprises her brother
with the chance to swim with dolphins, and a young
boy in New Mexico wishes for a playground for the
day care center he stays in that helps care for children
of low-income families. Plus, a nine-year-old from
Iowa wants to help local paramedics assist other kids
in need as a thank you for helping her when she was
in a car accident years before.