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It’s nice that you mentioned the sámi people 😊 Most tourists only care about the santa village, which is a shame because saami culture is much more interesting imo
This video was so sweet. The drone shots at the Reindeer farm were gorgeous and Adam's little jokes about Rudolph being away and renewing your license were funny and well-timed 😄 Nice little break from work today!
Steve Dietrich here. I've watched nearly every video that you guys have made and I think you have found your element. Both of you look so happy experiencing winter and playing in the snow. Kathryn is positively glowing.
We really enjoyed the winter weather! We haven't experienced much of it so it was so new and fresh for us! We hope to have more winter experiences over the years! Thank you so much, Steve!
I thought I saw Rudolph, but it was Adam's red nose. Katherine has always been a snow angel no matter where she is. She would be the perfect granddaughter. You two are the perfect couple. Thanks for taking us along on your travels. 👍👍5🏍🙋♂️
Good video and you really had good time! Did you know the fun fact, that the arctic circle moves about 14.5 meters per year because the axle of Earth is wobbling. The arctic circle travels about 250 kilometers back and forth in a 41000 year cycle.
It’s been a while since I’ve commented…but we’ve been watching your vlogs every Sunday! Finland is so beautiful and this looks like an absolute winter paradise! Seeing the joy on your faces and how much fun you had was wonderful! Oh what fun it is to ride in a one reindeer open sleigh!
My elf name is Myssy ...which means beanie in finnish. Thank you for sharing this video with us, it looked like it was a lot of fun at the Santa Village and seeing the reindeer. Woohoo! Cant wait to see next week's video!
Santa Claus is from Rovaniemi only for tourists. Actually he's from Korvatunturi, which is small mountain in the east, middle of nowhere. It's four hours of riding with small dirt road, assuming you can even get there in winter.
I loved this town…I felt like I was watching you in a postcard…so beautiful and magical! Seeing Santa and taking a sleigh ride pulled by reindeer was so cool!
Hello Adventurers, and No-No-Noooo...you can't have Salmon...it's mine! MINE! HAHA, I know ya'll are having a wonderful time up there. Enjoy every minute of your fun. Wish I was there with you.
Beautiful scenery guys!! The reindeer are awesome animals and I didn't know that their antlers grew back the same shape!! Interesting stuff guys and a BIG thank you for bringing us along on your adventures!!!
Thanks for sharing so much interesting information in this video and the previous one; especially where I will probably never get to go but I can experience it through your video. Hearing the crunch your boots made on the snow, I could definitely tell it was extremely cold. The reindeer were so cute!
Touhu is a somewhat relaxed/whimsical way to refer to doing something, and -nen is a surname suffix or a suffix for something small (book/booklet = kirja/kirjanen). There's probably some related reason for why it's a surname suffix but I don't know the connection.
Nice to see this kind of videos 😊I was born in Kemijärvi city Lapland. Kemijärvi is near Rovaniemi, I know Rovaniemi very well, I have visited there many times. Our summer is also beautiful you should visit.
Someone might have already mentioned this, but having now been to Finland during the winter, you should come back during the summer. You would think you´d come to a wrong country by mistake, it´s such a different experience.😄 Also, I really love your videos, you guys have such a genuine and wholesome vibe about you.☺ Oh and BIG props to you for bringing up the Sami people.
Lovely and neat episode! I can’t believe how cold it is and you guys taking it all in with so much enthusiasm. Love it❤️. Adam I was in Houston a couple of weekends ago with my son. We ate at “ The Pit Room “ and “Pinkerton’s”. Both were fabulous meals . I didn’t think I would enjoy a brisket so much😋😋. My son is already planning a trip with his friends just to eat 😂😂.
😄 Pro tip: Make your snow angels in snow that hasn't been stepped in or all packed down. Bonus pro tip: If your hands get cold inside gloves buy some electronic hand warmers or use things like Hothands hand warmers.
Yeah that would've been a good idea 😂 Oh believe us, we had hot hands, mittens and gloves. The problem is filming. You have to take at least one hand out to push the tiny buttons on the cameras. Once you do that, it's hard to get your hands warmed back up! Thanks for the tips!
Greetings from Finland! It was very entertaining to watch all of your 3 videos about Finland. They were very fun and pleasent to watch, becouse you appreciate the culture and everything and try stuff etc. If you ever come back to Finland again you could also try snowmobile riding buy yourself or hottubs with smokesauna. You gained a subscriber! Thanks for the videos and keep it up! 😊 Also don't worry about falling it also happens to the best of us. 😂
That's awesome to hear! We'll be releasing lots of content from our Finland trip in a couple months on our website. In the meantime our videos follow our general itinerary. If you have any specific questions, let us know!
How fun! Santa himself, YAY! 🥳 Wow! that is cold. You look dressed very appropriately for the temperature though. My Elf name is Pipo which means: "Jehovah increases" That is so cool! :) Very fun video, so much joy! - Michelle
HEY ADAM! I definitely saw that your "Fishing in Finland" showed up a month later. I think that is a serious reason to get out and do some FLY FISHING my friend. 🎣 😃
Looked my name up and it's Aatos which means "thought" in Finnish. At least that's what I found when I looked it up! :) Thanks for another great video!
I've been watching videos about Lapland, and I've come across you guys. I'm from Mississippi. I would love to go there. It looks like so much fun. I Also just subscribed ☺️
My elf name is Alvar which is just some kind of grassland I even looked up my sisters' elf names - they got Töpponen (felt slipper) and Kaneli (cinnamon)
Wow, this is such an incredible adventure ya'll are on! We are done with our contract here and got an Air BnB in the heart of San Francisco where we will chill for a month, then on to the next assignment in Redmond Oregon, 15 minutes north of Bend! We'll be there for at least 3 months. Def gonna eat at that falafel place ya'll showcased in your video. Can't wait!
Oh nice! Man y'all are getting to see some sweeeeet spots! Bend is an absolute blast! And you'll be there are a good time too! Don't miss that falafel place...so dang good!
Love this! So informative. I am traveling to Lapland next month - wondering what the tipping culture is like there for tours and excursions? Is tipping expected like in the US?
Tipping isn't really common in Finland, definitely not like in the US. We didn't even have the option to tip at most places. We didn't notice many people tipping guides or on tours, but we always try to tip when we can though! Have fun!!
We double checked the footage and we put it in the right box (for Christmas 2024), but it arrived earlier this month to Texas! Our friends who visited a couple years ago did in fact get theirs the following Christmas, so ours must have been a fluke! Oh well! 😅
@@AdventuresofAplusK When we were there in early July 2022, we had my grandchildren get personalized letters from Santa. They arrived just before Christmas, just as promised :)
Weird reindeer factoid, but the Finnish reindeer (and by extension, all the reindeer of Europe and Asia) and the North American reindeer - otherwise known as caribou - are both the same species (Latin name Rangifer tarandus), just on different continents. And, perhaps not surprisingly, they fill a similar role on both continents for the indigenous peoples living in the Arctic zones. The Sami of Northern Europe, the Nenets and the Chukchi and other peoples of the Siberian Arctic, and the Inuits, Yupiks and Kalaallit of Canada and Greenland traditionally all relied largely or near-exclusively on reindeer/caribou for meat, fat and furs.
I'm just too confused. As Finn we tell our children that Santa works and lives in Korvatunturi at secluded secret spot. It is eastern side of lapland. But maybe it is good to have tourist attraction 🤔
The reindeer can be very annoying in the summer when they roam freely and get on all the roads to escape the mosquitoes in the forests. Can slow down traffic very much depending on the amount of reindeer in the group
Amazing video! I’d love to visit there around Christmas! Long time sub. ❤ Having a Sprinter custom order, due mid June. I’ll have a few questions for you. 😁
Thank you! Questions, how are the Kosta solar panel working out? I want 200 watt panels. And how cool does the Dometic 2000 RTX AC get the van in 85-90 degree heat?
The solar panels are great! They seem to be better than the Renogy ones we had before. And they fit perfect on the roof. The AC is great also. It blows really cold. Our only problem is it doesn't stay cold. We think it may be our insulation job, but not sure. 15 minutes after we turn off the AC it gets warm again. On a nice sunny day when the sun is high the eco mode on the AC draws about as much as is coming in so that is nice. We didn't have a ton of sun last year so we couldn't run the AC as often as we'd like, but it was nice to have! We recommend the solar panels and the AC!
Thanks a million! Heat is my kryptonite. 🤣 Need to be sure about large purchases as you guys know!😁 My research lead me to the conclusion you just confirmed! Love to watch you guys. I binged watched you from your first video! Sub from years ago. Enjoy Europe! ❤🎅🏻
14:24 "Mine was 'Touhunen'..." Touhu could be translated as "Bustle", as in "hustle and bustle", and the -nen suffix is a common suffix for surnames, technically meaning "of small". Your elf name localized to English might be something like "Somebustle".
I'm sad that they use the word "Elf" in that website because Santa's traditional Nordic helpers should be translated more accurately as "gnomes". They are just one group of gnomes and in tradition there was a gnome watching over every home, there were garden gnomes (like the plastic statue) as well as other gnomes.
