#santa's village

[fauxfickle]

AAAROOON!!!!!

DON'T HIDE ALL THE LOST FOOTAGE BEHIND A PAYWALL!!

I'M NOT PAYING $65 DOLLARS FOR YOUR STUPID PREMIUM CHANNEL!!!!

AAAARRROOOONNNN!!!!!

[fallevs]

The cure for sadness.

[arconinternet]

Santa's Village (Video, Arthur H. Smith, 1964)

A silent video tour of a Californian Santa's Village theme park, one of a number of such theme parks (which also included 'fairy tale village' parks). You can watch it here.

K. Gordon Murray would follow up his importing and localizing of the Mexican movie Santa Claus (buy the MST3K version here or watch it for free after login here) with a trilogy of his own shorts filmed at Santa's Village theme parks - you can watch them here or buy a Rifftrax riffed version of the trilogy here.

[fitsofgloom]

I Wanna Get Lost With You

In A Christmas Village

[americankitsch1]

Santa's Village

Scotts Valley (Santa Cruz county), California

[geezerwench]

When you've already destroyed the Christmas tree and now it's time to take down Santa's village.

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[countessofravenclaw]

The 2022 writing Advent calendar: Day 3

3. Visiting Santa's Village

So, some of you may know that I am in fact a Fin. And Finland is famously known as the place Santa Claus lives. So I of course had to write about our favorite skaters visiting the real Santa Claus Village at the Arctic Circle close to Rovaniemi.

“Olette siis menossa tapaamaan pukkia? Oh sorry. Väärä kieli. You are going to go visit the good old Santa?” Taxi asked said as Gastón, Nina, Matteo and Luna got into his vehicle, with broken but understandaple English. 

“Yes, that is correct.” Gastón answered to him as he got to the front seat. Four of them plus Ambar and Simon, who were coming in the taxi behind them, had flown to Rovaniemi yesterday and now they were continuing their journey to their actual destination Saariselkä. But they were making a small stop first, since Luna had insisted, to the Santa’s Village. 

“You are the first tourists I have had this week, which is very surprising.” The driver kept talking, while turning the cars radio on a music that sounded like Christmas music in Finnish started playing. “The two weeks before Christmas, I was just driving japanese and chinese tourists back and forth. So tell me, where are you coming from?”

“Buenos Aires,” Matteo piped up from the backseat. 

“Latin America? That is a first in my cap. You speak very good English, but I could swear you had a British accent.” The driver pointed towards Gastón, and he shared and quick glance with Nina. Matteo and Luna already liked to make fun of the fact that he and Nina pretty much spoke English with British accents. That was what happened when you had lived over five years in England.

“Our, no, WE are so excited go here… or was it there.?” Luna stumped through a sentence in English. “Was it alright?” She whispered to Nina in Spanish

“It was fine.” Nina whispered back. 

“Well my friends, here we are.” The car started slowing down as a huge amount of light up structures came in toe view on the side of the road. Since it was 8:45, they had wanted to be there at the opening time, it was still dark. “Joulupukin Satukylä, or well, to you, Santa’s Magical Village, or whatever it is in Spanish. Have fun!”

“He was really nice,” Luna said as they waved their taxi driver goodbye and stood at the gate waiting for Simon and Ambar. Their taxi came five miles later. 

“Was your driver very talkative?” Matteo asked theme as their car also drove away.

“No, didn’t say a word,” Ambar answered while putting her gloved back on. Simon already looked like he was freezing after being in the cold outdoor air for two minutes. 

Well, it was -15 degrees celsius. It was cold. Having lived through many London winters, Gastón and Nina were much more used to actual below freezing temperatures than anyone else. Luna, Matteo, Simon and Ambar not so. Luna and Simon, having lived in Mexico most of their lives, had never even seen snow in their lives. 

“Ours actually was,” Matteo continued.

“Hmmm, I thought that the Finnish people are known for not really talking.” Ambar pondered, “Or at least there was something about bus stops, when I did the research.”

“Hey! Are we not gonna go in?” Luna was jumping on her feet. Maybe because she was cold, or because she was so excited. 

“I am ready to some hot chocolate.” Simon said still shivering, “Or that Glugo stuff. I am freezing.”

“I think it was called glog, they call it glögi.” Nina said as they walked in. She had pulled up the map of the village on her phone.

“Simon, you are cold because you have not closed you jacket all the way,” Ambar scolded Simon and fixed his zipper. “We are not in Argentina anymore.”

“So, apparently this is the line for the Arctic Circle,” Nina read from her phone as they stopped in from the a row of stone pillars. 

“Hey! I AM ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD!!!” Luna had already jumped over the line already. 

“Luna! Wait for us!” Matteo yelled as the other jumped over the line as well. 

“Well, now we can cross that off our bucket list…”

“Oh noh guys…” Matteo suddenly started looking around. “Where did she go? Guys, I have lost Luna.”

Everyone looked around. Luna really had vanished, even when she had just been waiting for them at the other side of the Arctic Circle. 

“How do you lose Luna?” Gastón asked trying hide his slight amusement. “She was wearing literally the whole rainbow. We are surrounded by snow, the will stand out”

“I don’t know,” Matteo shook his head.

“Okay,” Ambar said, not sounding concerned at all. Well, it would be Luna, if anybody, who would get lost in a forgrein Nordic country. Not to mention in freezing temperatures. “Raise your hand if you are surprised?” No one raised their hand

“OMG, SO CUTE!!!” All of them turned their head towards the noise.

“That has to be Luna.” Simon said.

“Lets go,” Ambar nodded, “Before we get kicked out of here because Luna was terrorizing an elf.”

Soon enough Matteo, Simon, Ambar, Gastón and Nina found Luna at the husky yard.

Luna was taking patting a head of the dog that was sitting next to the fence, and talking animatedly with the employee there, who was in fact wearing an elf costume. The poor elf was looking very confused.

“Luna! Finally we found you.” Matteo was first on Luna’s side. “What are you doing?” 

“I was just asking them how many dog they have, and can we take on home.” Luna looked Mattei innocently, “So Newton has a friend.”

“Luna, first, we are not getting a dog, our lives are way too busy. And second, they don’t understand Spanish,” Matteo gestured towards the elf. 

“I apologise for my wife, she just gets so excited sometimes. How many dogs do you have?” Matteo asked in English

“We have seven at the moment.”

“Thank you!” Matteo took Luna by the shoulders, “Come on. Let’s go see Santa.”

Just to set the record straight here, Simbar, Gastina and Lutteo are all engaged and Newton is Gastón and Nina's dog, if anyone was wondering

[onlinesaltandpeppershakermuseum]

Set # 1067

These big irons are a tourist set for an attraction called santa's village in dundee IL. I've never been to said attraction but with some research it does still seem to be a functioning park on the weekends! They opened in 1959 so these shakers could be up to 64 years old!

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Via Andrea Watrouse's Instagram Story (December 29th, 2023)

[northameicanblog]

Santa Avelina Waterfall, Guatemala: Santa Avelina Waterfall located 10 kilometers from the municipal seat of San Juan Cotzal in Quiché, Guatemala. Its a very nice waterfall. It is worth while to do this little hike of 20min, on a warm day bring your swimming suite to take a bath, water is cold though and there are no facilities to change clothes... San Juan Cotzal is a town and municipality in the Guatemalan department of El Quiché. San Juan Cotzal is part of the Ixil Community, along with Santa María Nebaj and San Gaspar Chajul. Wikipedia

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Santa’s village was real and it was located in the rafters of Michaels craft store. 

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[cecibeanz]

secret santa art for @joonebugg !! the winters…🥲❤️

[olenvasynyt]

Sorry I'm not more consistent in my posting- but I am stalking you with religious fervor (its SS).

Stealing this idea from someone else, but who is on your "hear-me-out" cake?

Oh Secret Santa 😂 mine is a variety and some are funny but they are all very logical in my head

The most normal ones:

The Hound from Game of Thrones obviously like this should not be a hear me out

Till Lindemann, lead singer of Rammstein

Adrien Brody

Arobynn from Throne of Glass

Dijkstra from The Witcher (and graham mctavish ofc)

Voldemort from A Very Potter musical

And more unconditional ones:

Pitch from Rise of the Guardians (I feel like this is common)

President Warren G Harding

The monster from The Village which I realized (spoilers) is just Adrien Brody in a monster suit 😂😭

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Santa Severina, Calabria, Italy

Santa Severina is one of the most beautiful towns in the Crotone area.

It sits 326m above sea level having commanding views from here across the Neto river valley that opens below this hill town all the way to Costa dei Saraceni. Santa Severina has a longer history than most towns with a beauty seemingly coveted by all, the area has been inhabited for at least 2500 years first by the Calabrian indigenous tribes then Greeks, Romans, Saracens, Byzantine, Normans, Swabians, Angevins, Aragonese and finally the Bourbons. The dominating Norman castle is the main attraction for the town but the town itself is is a thing of elegant relaxed charm that feels cozy and beautiful at the same time.

Photos by Aaron Peterson

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