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Ice Sliding at Santa Village



The next day we headed back to the Arctic Circle and Santa Village to play on the ice slides that we had seen here yesterday (we wore our ski pants today so we could slide).

We found another sign for the Arctic Circle Line (too much snow to see the dotted one on the ground) and Mackenzie was so happy that she was sitting on top of the world.


This is the sign that's next to the Arctic Circle sign. For most of December Rovaniemi is mostly dark and June is mostly only light. The Winter equinox is the day with no sunrise and the summer equinox is the day of no sunset.

They have a 'midnight sun' marathon, half marathon and fun walk on June 10 if anyone is interested.

Here are a bunch of sliding pictures.

We were here for hours and it was so much fun. We went down sitting, backwards, laying on our stomach, on our back, Mackenzie sitting on me, head first, feet first, anyway we could (it's really fast).

When we first got there only kids were on the slides, then I started sliding with Mackenzie and eventually other big kids (adults) tried, but we out-lasted everyone. One guy even filmed us.
We got smashed by the kids at the bottom one time, but they saw us coming when we came after them (man, they moved quick).
My butt was sooooo sore. The little bumps in the ice are very hard. We got to the point where Mackenzie had to help me up.
Mackenzie finally talked David into going down the slide with her (he wasn't wearing ski pants and didn't want to get too cold). Well, seems he has this new thick jacket that keeps him warm, but won't slide. It took them quite awhile to get down the slide, he had to push with his feet or they would stop (that was really funny since Mackenzie and I were screaming down).
Mackenzie gave him one of the little bottom slides to use and it worked much better. He slid off the bottom of the slide and out into the snow.


More Artic Circle and snowmobiling!