A Bit of a Mishap on Christmas Day

We woke up Christmas morning and it was snowing pretty hard.  We headed over to "Snow Games" for a day of fun.    Below is a quick video taken at  Snow Games before we hopped on our snow mobiles.

 

 

 

Christmas day was spent snowmobiling thru the fells with a stop for a lovely lunch (of reindeer of course) before heading back.    Again the scenery was just stunning.  With the grayish sky and everything covered in snow, everything just blends together.  It feels as if you're literally inside a snow globe.  I still can't get over how beautiful it is.

One of my friend's and I were taking turns driving the snowmobile.   You really get bounced around as a passenger on the back of one but you it's also a lot of work driving one, so it's easier to switch back and forth, especially on such on a long ride.  We were having a great time and were on our way back, when we realized the lights weren't working on our snowmobile.   The guide replaced the fuses and tried a few other things, but couldn't get the lights working again.   Luckily, we had just left the ski resort where we had lunch so he was able to take it back and grab another one fairly quickly.  We were lucky it didn't happen when we were further along and far from everything.

Lights fixed, we are back on track and continuing on our way when we got off the path and ran onto the huge snow embankment.   The snow was so deep and high, the snowmobile flipped over and we crashed.  It seemed to happen in such slow mot ion.  We both knew we were going over and all I good see was a tree right in front of me.  I was certain my head was going to smack into the tree.  Luckily we missed the tree by inches and the snow was so deep it really softened our fall.   We quickly realized we were ok but had a difficult time getting out from under the snowmobile.   We were in the very back of the group so everyone else was ahead of us and didn't see this happen.  Luckily my friend's husband and two other girls were behind us.  They were able to lift the snowmobile up just enough for us to slide out from under it
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It didn't take the guide long to realize we were no longer behind them so he came back looking for us in about 10 minutes.   He was able to pull the snowmobile up, and get it out of the snow.   We were back on our way, a little shaken up but okay!

As we got back on and headed back down to Luosto, I realized suddenly all the trees were green.  Apparently while we were going up the hills, the temperatures had risen to the point where the snow had fallen off the trees.  Our winter wonderland was quickly disappearing!  This photo was taken about 4:30pm.   Very different look than the one taken the night before.