hello and welcome to santa claus village we are currently in lapland in the city
of rovaniemi finland and for the next 48 hours we're going to be exploring the said hometown
of the world famous santa claus so we decided to splurge the extra buck and get ourselves
a cabin at santa claus holiday village and we're gonna give you guys a quick little tour
our cabin is number 15 and we have the cutest little porch that is decorated with holiday lights
and also a christmas tree but the fun is definitely on the inside so let's go in
welcome to our very cozy and very red cabin space we have two twin size beds as well as a
couch area for lounging and we also have a little dining area because this cabin is equipped with
a mini little kitchen where we can make some home-cooked meals but the best part
of this cabin is definitely the bathroom space and i'm going to show you guys why
so here you see a very typical bathroom space but surprise surprise behind me is a private
sauna in our very own cabin and we cannot wait to use this because the last time we tried a
traditional finnish sauna we were absolutely in love so we will 100% be taking advantage of
this very nice amenity so now that we've given you guys a tour of the place we're gonna make
some dinner and then hop in the sauna and tomorrow is a super jam-packed day and i'm really excited
for it but we need to get our rest so with that we'll see you guys tomorrow good night
good morning from santa's village although it does not look like it it is morning it
is nine o'clock and we are heading towards breakfast yes it's complimentary with our cabin
so we just finished breakfast which was truly delicious
but what i love is at this time of day the sun is finally rising and what's
really cool is it slowly rises it's like a prolonged sunrise which i really love
our very first christmas activity of the day is going to be a reindeer sleigh ride
we're walking over there now and i think this is going to be the first time
we are going to meet a real-life reindeer i see the reindeer
look at its little white butt our reindeer has one horn
so the funniest thing is our reindeer has just one huge like massive antler only on
one side of his head we are being covered by some really nice um reindeer hide which is
interesting because there's the alive reindeer and then there's his cousin
we just finished our reindeer ride and we did the 400 meter ride because it's short sweet but oh so
fun and if you are interested we use santa claus reindeer because it is right here
in santa claus village so we didn't have to walk far and we got to experience this once
in a lifetime memory all right next up we're gonna go meet the king the head honcho the mayor
the founder of this village santa claus himself
santa's waiting for you i've never met him before have you been good this year
oh i've been very good and like chad has been very naughty
you still have time to draw and write to santa claus should we draw and write something yeah
i'm gonna draw him something we have to come bearing gifts wow chad i like it thank you thank
you i tried very hard to impress you impress me not santa oh i mean i'm the real santa
i hope santa likes it this is so cozy how are you so good at drawing at where in the states
are you from from tennessee oh from tennessee wonderful i actually do listen to some country
music tennessee has some wonderful barbecue i've gotten by heard sloppy a couple times
we just went to see santa claus and he is a very deep man he gave us a lot of advice and because
he is almost 400 years old he was telling us just not to worry i've seen so many things in people
advancing in their careers of course i'm very happy for them but also know that it's all fleeing
yeah he's like there's just so many things in life that you stress about and at the end of
the day it doesn't matter anymore and i was like wow i was not expecting such a motivational talk
as much as we worry about certain things in the end it just doesn't matter and doing what
makes you happy is what's important absolutely thank you santa yeah that was a really great
visit with santa it was like a therapy session so next up we are going to head over to the post
office this is really cool it's letters from all over the world that are shipped here for santa
claus and all of his elves help open the letters look it's taiwan so we just finished going inside
of the post office and picking out our postcards and we decided to go with a moomins inspired
postcard and in case you're wondering what a moomin is it is actually this finnish animated
show that has been around for i believe over 50 years it's actually what i drew for santa claus
was that little moomin he really liked it as you can see the moomin is very very cute it's got the
face of what seems to be a hippo and the body of a plump little pillsbury doughboy so what's
really cool about this place is it's an actual working post office so they're two mailboxes
you can either send one right now in this moment or you can wait until the christmas of 2022 and
receive a letter that you previously wrote to yourself which i think is super super awesome
and so we are going to do both of those we've already picked out our little stamps that we're
going to stamp our postcards with and then we'll have ourselves a little treat when we get home
we have our letters written we're gonna go drop them off in the mail
next up on the list we're gonna go into the arctic circle arctic circle
we're having some difficulty trying to figure out if this side is the arctic circle or if this side
is to be safe we'll just stand right on the border area after visiting the arctic circle
we went ornament shopping for way too long i'm pretty sure we visited every shop in the village
yeah it was super hard to decide because we're in santa's village they have so many ornament options
which we're really not used to and so we had to go through each and every one and choose the perfect
ornament and i think we did a pretty good job we're gonna show you the ornament later but right
now we're actually gonna go and get some dinner at santa's salmon place they actually only have
one entree and that is some salmon so we know exactly what we're getting so we're
gonna go pick that up um and if they have a spot for us to dine there we'll eat there
so the very first thing that we got is glogg or glogi and this is a spiced mulled wine and
it tastes very much like some hot berry juice really really good it's actually very common
across a lot of nordic countries of course we got our salmon but we also got leipajuusto which is a
fresh cheese that is traditionally made from cow's beestings and it's served with some cloudberry jam
it reminds me of those days when i would melt string cheeses in the microwave
and you're left with this gooey delicious cheese and then i squeezed some honey over it and eat
it all together and it was so good this is like the gourmet version of that wow it tastes amazing
we have just finished our salmon feast and it was some of the best salmon i've ever had in my life
but i suppose when you only have one item on your menu you have to do it justice
and they definitely did so we've got some leftovers and now we're gonna walk around
in the winter wonderland and see what this place looks like at night
we are back at the arctic circle i think it's even prettier at night because everything has lights on
it and it's all glowing and warm and it's actually snowing right now so it just adds to the fun
i've been watching kids ride around in these sleighs
all day long and now it's my turn all right hold on oh man the snow is just pounding my face
i know we are both going to sleep extremely well after that sleigh ride
we are both not quite in the best shape of our lives right now and i think that really proved
it to us well at least we both ran at least 100 meters a fourth of the reindeer today
yes so we are now going to show you the ornament that we picked up for finland
it is the cutest little bearded man and his hat covers his eyes and all you can see is
his round little nose it actually isn't an ornament i'm going to diy it and pop a little
hole right there tie a string and then hang it on the tree i think he looks like a little toe
on top of that we also bought something for ourselves on the topic of moomins as i was
talking about earlier we picked up a little rotary candle holder the heat from the candle makes this
little metal thing spin the most magical thing in the world it's a little tiny carousel that you can
bring wherever you want and it will spin and make your life so happy or that is what i'm imagining
will happen so i think the only way to end today is by taking advantage of our private
sauna and steaming away all the toxins that we have what toxins yeah we've only had a
full day of joy thank you guys for joining us here in santa's village we will actually
be in rovaniemi for a little bit longer so if you are interested in seeing some of our many
adventures to come definitely hit subscribe and with that we will see you guys next time