Rudy's Rules for Travel by Mary K. Jensen

Author:Mary K. Jensen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: She Writes Press
Published: 2018-04-28T04:00:00+00:00

I race to find Rudy in the dining room. “Come with me,” I say hurriedly. “This is no shopping mall Santa. That beard is the real deal. And you will not believe the reindeer.”

I take him by the hand and we walk along the path . . . and walk along the path. No Santa. No reindeer. Rudy is giving me that concerned look he gives me when I have bumped my head.

There may not be Santa, sleigh, and reindeer, but the candlelit path leads up the snowy hills to a series of saunas and warming huts. Inside each hut, women dressed head-to-toe in fur stir big cast-iron pots over the fire. Cups of mulled wine smell of cardamom and cinnamon. We have a choice for warming soup—reindeer stew or vegetable broth. Rudy tries a spoonful of reindeer stew. I, however, cannot, now that I have had a recent personal relationship with one.

We visit each of the six huts, walking uphill to the end of the trail, then start down. The team of reindeer and magnificent sleigh are in front of the lodge, patiently waiting to continue their night of flying and gifting. In the dining room, the sounds and smells of Christmas preside. Santa is on a throne, with children waiting in line to sit on the famous lap. I may be imagining this—I do that sometimes—but I am almost certain that, as he left, his last wink was for me.

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