Mika Lappalainen | Friday, 24 December 2021
I asked to Anni, my daughter helped me out on this one. I had really long day and Christmas eve will be even longer because I had to visit so many home during the day and night. I have wrote about fish which will haunt me earlier and now Anni wrote short story about whole trip and that fish is mentioned again. I hope you enjoy and Merry Christmas. That trip is full of great memories and I'm glad that she seems to have those also. Here we go.....
When I was 13 years old, our family decided go to Swedish Lapland for Easter. We packed the car and put the snowmobiles in the trailer. Because the car trip was long we decided to take card games with us so me and my siblings could play. Well we ended up sleeging most of the time, but it was good because soon was time to change the car to snowmobiles.
We set off on snowmobiles towards our destination. The views were so beautiful, lots of snow and big fells. At first it was nice until there when started to be windy. But then we got to the cottage. It was small and cosy. Me and my siblings slept on three-story bed.
In the morning when I woke up it was sunny and we went ice fishing. The purpose was to get an artic char. We stayed there many hours, at times we ate and went sleding. After some time we got some fish and went back to the cottage. We started to cook and heat up the sauna. While waiting the sauna to warm up me and my dad went sleding to the fells. It was so fun, I have never been on the sledge as fast as I was then.
Finally the sauna was warm enough to go in there, and it was on of the most relaxing things after a cold day. In the evening we played card games with the whole family and prepared for the next day’s fishing trip. The next day my dad and I went to a nearby lake for ice fishing. At first the fishes we tried to catch weren’t much intressed. But after some time I felt that a big fish started to eat my bait. I tried to get the fish up but it got away. And then the same thing happened to my dad, we saw how the fish was almost on the ice until it escaped again. We still tried but there was no trace of the fish. We headed back to the cottage of course on the way we went sleding.
At the cottage my siblings and I ate some easter eggs and went to sauna before bed. On the last day we still went ice fishing, actually got some artic char. Then the trip was coming to it’s end, and it was time to go back home. We set off on snowmobiles to go back to the car, but when we arrived to the valley we saw that there was no snow left. But some how my dad managed to get us back to the car. We packed the car again and the long ride to home started. Me and my siblings started playing card games again, but suddently we stopped, because our car broke down middle of the road. My dad tried to fix it, but couldn’t we had to call some help. After many hours we got a new car and were able to drive back home safely.
Even though me and my dad didn’t get the big fish and our car broke down, it still was one of my favorite trips ever, because it was filled with adventures.
Anni, daughter of legend
