Easter break

A five-day Easter break gave me a great opportunity to relax (and do homework) at my winter house. This is the best time of the year to ski in Lapland. The sun is shining and it's not too cold. This means the temperature is something around 30F.

I've visited my winter house since the year I was born. The entire family (my grandparents and cousins) used to gather together and spend a week at the winter house. Nowadays it's only my family and my cousin, Sanni's family who come all 1280 miles to Lapland in order to ski.

The Northern part of Finland is called Lapland. It's not a city or anything-kinda like a county or something. The Santa Claus lives in Lapland, on the Arctic Circle. It's only two hours away from my winter house!!! Many tourists from all over the world visit Lapland (and you should, too!)

This pic has been taken years ago, this year there was so much more snow!

My ex and I visited Santa Claus last summer

Our winter house was re-decorated a year ago.

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Thursday was a great day for skiing! The tracks were just damped down! I enjoyed the warm weather and sunshine! The sun doesn't really shine in the winter and it's really dark, so the sunshine it's a sign of spring.

This picture has been takes a couple years ago. My cousin, Sanni (on the left) is a skier and competes frequently. I skied about 80 miles. Saturday Sanni and I went snowboarding. There's a whole lot of snow here; I bet the snow banks are more than 2 feet tall!!

 We both have been snowboarding for years. We usually snowboard about three days in the winter. It's not a lot, because in Southern Finland there's too little snow for skiing.

I also wanna tell you something about Finnish Easter traditions. It's a religious holiday after all, but we also have some weird traditions. On Palm Sunday children dress up as witches and wizards and go from door to door doing a trick or treat kind of a thing. They give a pussy willow and get easter eggs for treat. I will make sure I audiotape the poem they say😂😂😂

Unlike in English, the Good Friday is Long Friday in Finnish. And hat comes to the name, Good Friday is really nonsense, just saying. It wasn't good at all as we all know. 

Anyway, we also have some traditional foods we eat on Easter. This includes lamb, rye porridge, limppu (bread) and Easter eggs. Rye porridge is made of rye flour, water and syrup. I find it really disgusting, though. Limppu is a Finnish bread and I'm not aware of the equivalent English word for it. It's usually soft rye bread with some syrup added.  Actually, I did eat that bread once in America at the Finnish Christmas dinner.
Including a small (and really unnecessary) toy, the Easter eggs differ from the American ones. But then again, the most popular Easter eggs come from German. I've heard you've tried Kinder chocolate, too. Ain't that good, though?

Some Finns grow a little piece of grass in a jar. Apparently that's called ryegrass(?). It's a signifies new life. 

 With warm and sunny regards,

Anette