Travelog post for: Tanusha

Christmas!

In Finland they celebrate it on Christmas Eve. The feast wasn't a traditional one - we ate burritos! Every family member enjoys this unlike the traditional foods. The tradtional version would include ham, potato casserole, carrot casserole and Swedish turnip casserole, fish, this stuff... etc.

The only traditional foods they had were rice porridge in the morning and plum pastries for dessert (plus the gingerbread cookies of course). But it was good!

I helped the kids decorate the tree and while we were outdoors had Santa dropped the gifts to the balcony! With a letter! I got a gift too! It was an red woollen scarf to keep me warm in the windy weather. It suits me very well! 

In addition to all this we went to the sauna (it's also a tradition on Christmas although these people go there at least weekly anyway) and watched tv. My host's favorite is the Jimminy Cricket christmas show (the cartoon)!