Day 2 - Father Christmas
Today was the day we got to meet the ‘jolly bearded one’ but we had a pretty full agenda to get through first. We travelled around 20 minutes north of Levi to a remote location in the forest adorned with twinkly lights and complimentary elves. After a spot of ice fishing where we caught a rather handsome perch, we enjoyed kick-sledding, snow-shoeing and snowmobiling before retiring to a cozy ‘kota’ hut with a roaring log fire to enjoy warm berry juice and grill some sizeable Finnish sausages. We were then offered the opportunity to enjoy fat biking which wasn’t on our ‘must-do’ list but we had paid our money and as they say ‘when in Rome…’
After conquering the fat bike, we were ushered into a pretty cabin in the forest for our private meeting with the big fella. I can indeed confirm that he had a broad face and a little round belly, that shook, when he laughed like a bowlful of jelly (90% sure on the last one)! He was happy to chat for as long as we desired and the kids (unfortunately only 1 believer left out of the 3) were captivated especially when he sang them a Christmas song – a pretty darn perfect first day in Lapland.