Santa Claus

So, it might not be Christmas yet, but yesterday I went to see Santa :)

And I guess everyone was lied to about him living at the North Pole. He really lives in Rovaniemi.

It was a lot of fun. Its said that because 'Santa' gets so many visitors from around the world, he knows like 10 languages. He switched easily from Finnish to English when he found out me and Julia, a girl from Wisconsin that's staying in Rovaniemi, were American.

Here's some pictures from his village:

Rovaniemi is about 120km north of Kemi, on the Arctic Circle. If you're wondering about my hair, it was windy.

I thought this was kind of cool. I'm a long way from home, haha.

Conan O'Brian visited Santa, haha.

Me and Julia by the Christmas Tree.

These are letters from all over the world. Apparently when you write to Santa, it actually goes somewhere. There was a USA box :)

And here's my 'official photo with Santa'. We couldn't bring in our own cameras, but instead it was 25€ to buy the picture. Its actually kind of cool, but Santa jipped me out of a lot of money. Haha.

Update:

Arja made lingonberry pie!

I haven't tried it yet, but I probably will tonight with some tea. Looks good, so hopefully it tastes good too :P