Our trip to Göteborg - Liseberg Theme Park - Part 2, Tomte's Workshop (Post 4 of 8)

The log flume ride was closed for Winter (not really a surprise) but in its place was something much cooler - A full Tomte's workshop display.

The kids were disappointed to find it wasn't a ride, but were soon laughing at the tomte's zooming across the roof to power the furnace or deliver presents (for a description about Tomte's and Jul Tomte, see one of my earlier posts)

At first we thought it was just going to be a sit on Santa's lap but we passed through a big snow arch and through a snow covered forest into a tomte village.

The snow arch

The forest path

Tomtefar also means Father Christmas (Father Tomte)

Tomte's making pepperkakor houses

There was a full Christmas display of Tomtes inside - including a conveyor belt that made the toys, wrapped them and then dropped them into Santa's sack ready to go.

Checking the lists to see what needs to be made

Feeding in the raw materials (wood)

Checking the toys after the first stage

Painting Machine

Wrapping

And into the sack

Here's a short movie of the whole process:

Tomte Present making

Cam watching the Tomte zoom across to the furnace in a basket and being watched by more tomtes

Mrs Tomte