Today we headed over to Santa’s Village. It was fun but also a little bit disappointing. There were multiple buildings that had different gift shops. The buildings were well built and really fit the theme. I think the problem is you have this image in your head from when you were a kid on what saints village would look like.
I didn’t see a work shop, although I will say the elves were well dressed and I really liked their outfits. So much so I bought my self a hat. This village is on the arctic circle.
That is the magic line where for at least 24 hours once a year there is total sunlight in the summer and in the winter 24 hours of complete darkness. Its a curved line that goes through the buildings and across the area. Along the line they have it written the Latitude and Longitude of this particular line.
Now we did visit Santa in his official arctic office. That was kinda neat it had an arctic theme as you waited to get in. He’s a very popular fellow that Santa Claus. They had a Guinness world record wish list.
Once you get to his official office you enter a live TV streaming. You go up and meet him and can talk to him about anything. He really liked Joe’s beard of course it wasn’t as long as his but in volume it could get there. After the visit we purchased photos and a video of our meet and great. Very well done I actually really liked this part.
After visiting Santa we decided to send some post cards. They have special stamps as well as a special postage stamp so we sent some off to a few kids as well as sent one home for our selves.
There were also mail boxes that they would send the letters next year.
Its amazing how many letters this place gets every year.
After some more shopping, which did have a lot of locally made items which is always a plus. It makes it easy not spending money on useless things if you only buy things made in the area you visit. One thing that was real neat were wooden cups made out of Birch. They have one or two little holes for you fingers to hold the cups.
These are a few pictures of a hotel at Santa's village. Believe it or not this was taken at 4p right after the sun went down.
Inside the PostOffice was a lot of nice decorations.
Winter park area at the village that had ice skating, sledding, and Igloos.
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