This year the Christmas season was just perfect. The weather was amazing - lot's of powder snow and approx. -20 c degrees and the quietness of the nature gave the peaceful Christmas feeling.
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| Chistmas Eve |
After the short walk in the snowy winter wonder land, we had a Christmas sauna, wooden heated, of course... In the Christmas Eve, Finns usually bring the candles to the graves of the friends and the loved ones and on the Christmas Day's morning they have a service in a local church. In Savonlinna region the world biggest wooden church in Kerimäki provides the most amazing atmosphere in the Christmas Day's morning, as the church is in use only this one day in winter season and thousands of candles gives the soft light in to the church..
One of the most important thing in Finnish Christmas is of course the food. We serve lot's of different kind of casseroles - made of carrots, meat, swedes, potato, liver... A big ham, different kind of fishes, Karelian pasties, plum soup, spicy cakes, ginger breads etc.. And you have to eat a lot and slowly..
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| Ham and swede casserole |
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| Finnish salmon made of different ways - with pepper, cured and smoked salmon |
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| Ham and spicy mustard :) Jam! |
And after a dinner comes the Santa from the Finnish Lapland and Korvatunturi :) This yera he could come even by a nice sledge, because we had so much snow!
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| Dear Santa Clause brought again so nice presents :) |
After the Christmas we begin the preparations for the New Year and welcome our neighbor friend from Russia to celebrate the coming year together. With the sayings of Russians "How you spend a New Year, you'll spend your coming year" - we wish you all lot's of happiness for the year 2013!
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