The other night, Tage and Sara went to the cabin for a romantic getaway. We all met them there the next day for lunch. This time, we were able to get out and take a couple of pictures:
This looks nice!
Monday, December 28, 2009
Church in Finland
This is where Kristina and I have gone to church a couple of times. It's ok to be a little jealous...
The sun was just coming up on Christmas morning as we left church.
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Friday, December 25, 2009
A few more Julafton pictures.
Sofie, Dani, and Hannes look over a new gift:
Here is one of the gifties I got from my wife:
Smoked moose meat! I also got smoked reindeer meat, a bottle of white truffle oil, and a great book! Thanks dearheart!
Kristina's OTHER sister, Kea (Mikaela), her husband, Patten (Patrik), and one of their 18,000 children, Joas:
Elis is Grandpa's boy:
Julafton (Christmas Eve)
Christmas Eve is celebrated in Finland like Christmas day is celebrated in the U.S. In case my mom was worrying, they did feed me well:
We had a special glazed ham, roast, mashed potatoes, paté, two kinds of homemade bread, pickles, beet salad, rutabega casserole, some carrot dish that was good, potato salad, smoked salmon, fruit salad and other things...
Here is the fruit salad. It had boiled egg yolks on top!
Then something terrifying happened:
The Christmas Eve tradition is that some dress up as Tomten (Santa Claus) and go around and hand out your presents to everyone. This is all well and good, but the way that they let you know that they're there is to walk up to the window (in the pitch black) and know on the window! I reached for my gun, but didn't have it.
CAAAARRREEEPPPYYYYY!!!!!
The kids seemed to enjoy it though, and it was pretty neat; I just was not prepared mentally or militarily.
After everyone picked themselves up off the floor from laughing at me, they made up for it with coffee and a good spread of dessert!
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