Thursday December 20th

Close call

Yesterday I dropped off our visa applications at the US Embassy in Reykjavík. The place was pretty heavily guarded (policecar at the front of the dead-end street, metal detector and guards inside), but all went well. Then this morning at 10am (still in bed) we get a call from the Embassy saying that we need to come down there at 11am since there is some problem with Finnur’s application. Apparently he needs some special approval to be able to work. So we get out of bed double quick and drive all the way downtown and get there just in time. At 11:15am we get called to the window, and the guy informs us the J2 visa holders are not permitted to work in the US. This was news to us, so we told him that it was F2 visa holders that couldn’t work, but the J2’s could. We then showed him Finnur’s “Employment Authorization in the US” card from the INS, which he found very interesting. He doubled back to talk to his collegue, and after a little conference he came back saying that all was in order and that our visas would be ready after 2pm tomorrow! Isn’t it remarkable how Finnur always gets into bureocratic trouble?!?!? But all should be well now.

After that I went to the dentist, who scolded me for not using dental floss, then cleaned my teeth and sent me on my way. Now we’re at home in Mosfellsbær and it’s raining outside. Finnur has a cold and I’m about to load some pics up for the website. Hopefully that won’t take too long…

Wednesday December 19th

The LOTR day!!

Finally, finally – the 19th of December!!! Well, the day didn’t start so well… our bodies rebelled our sleeping to 3pm yesterday and woke us up at 4am this morning! Unable to fall back asleep, Finnur finally got dressed around 7am, but I stayed in bed and managed to nap a little. Then Steinunn (Finnur’s littlest sister) and I went Christmas shopping for a few hours and I got most of the shopping done! At 6pm, Finnur and I went to Óli and Holla’s place, where we met Halli and Adda, ate pizza and then walked to the cinema. We were there at 7:20pm and were almost the first to arrive. At 7:45 they opened the doors and we got good seats, or as good as they get in that particular cinema, which isn’t all that good – but the good cinemas had already sold out (but I’m taking my brothers to see it in a good cinema on the 26th).

The trailers were a complete fan-boys/girls wet-dream… Star Wars II (hmm… actually doesn’t look all that interesting) and Spiderman (could be ok). Then the Fellowship of the Ring began and some three hours later we were thrown (quite against our wills) out of Middle Earth and back onto the streets of Reykjavík. The film is absolutely AWESOME!! Even though I knew pretty much all that was about to happen, I still sat stiff as a board in my seat with tension… How the hell did they manage to hire Gandalf to do the movie?!?! Anyway… the film is scary as hell and more beautiful than I could have imagined. Go see it! Go see it NOW!!

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