Win a Grand in Travel Certificates from Southwest Airlines

Well, its "freebie Friday" on a Monday here at the Pauline Frommer daily, as I wanted to get this giveaway to your attention before it disappeared. Through Dec 21, Southwest Airlines will be giving away one $1000 gift certificate each day. Since most Southwest flights are in the $250 to $300 range round-trip, that's a good amount of travel. Two winners have already been announced for Saturday's and Sunday's give away.

Here are the rules: participants must follow Southwest on Twitter (their handle is @southwestair). This will allow them to see what the daily contest entails. Today, travelers must send a picture to Southwest via twitter of themselves and a reindeer by 4pm central time. A panel of judges will pick the winner.

You can see the winners from the first two days of the contest plus all the rules at the Southwest site. Probably the most important rule is that all submissions must have the hashtag #12daysofluv.

Good luck finding a photogenic rheindeer!