Hotel Yllasrinne
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Christmas and Boxing Day
... route back to the cottage.
At the cottage, we finished thawing out by making brats in the fire. They were so good!! When we were done eating, Anssi took Natasha and I each out for a spin on the snow mobile! The ride was awesome and exhilarating, and extremely cold. I wasn’t having any problems with my glasses fogging up until we stopped when Anssi offered to teach me to drive. I was on the edge, then finally decided yes, I wanted to drive, and of course ...
Finnish Christmas Eve
... breakfast, we decorated the Christmas tree! After decorating the tree, we went to the cemetery to light candles, then back to the house to go in the sauna.
The sauna was extra fun. There is a tradition where you take branches into the sauna and hit yourself with them; Mari says it is good for you and is supposed to improve circulation. I don’t know if it improved my circulation, but I did enjoy the scent of the leaves. We got the sauna to ...
Day 1 in the Arctic Circle
... of champions and a great way to start the day.
After breakfast, Mari s showed us around Kolari. We saw both churches, and the cemetery. Then, we drove to Sweden to go to a store to get ingredients for baking chocolate chip cookies. Natasha and I had a blast reading all the Swedish labels, seeing the Swedish candy, and best of all, admiring the stuffed animal collection. The hammerhead sharks were the ...
Lapland - Departure home
... experienced only two snow falls. One occurred on Christmas eve 2007 but remained only for a few hours and the second one on Easter Sunday 2008. On Easter Sunday the temperatures dipped to -4°C. It was hard to say, whether we brought the snow and cold temperatures from Lapland, after we had had such a mild winter in Frankfurt for the whole first quarter of the ...
Lapland - Cross-country Skiing
Lapland - Cross-country Skiing It had started snowing heavily during the night and by the morning, at least five cms of snow had fallen. The other guests of the lodge decided to go for another husky ride, but we wanted to go skiing instead. So we borrowed skis and ski shoes from the lodge, again at no additional cost for us. Near the lodge their was a trail for ...