Archive for : August, 2003

Sunday August 31st 2003 The Trip This entry should wrap up our summer-vacation so it’ll be the last one in English – at least for a while! We decided (quite wisely as it turned out) to show up super early at the airport (i.e. 2 hours early) and thus managed to avoid the throng atRead more

Saturday August 30th 2003 “Home” again We just got back to California and are now heading straight to bed! The trip went well, we got extra leg-room on both flights and managed to sleep a little. Kerri and John came to pick us up at the airport, which was very very nice. Ok, off toRead more

Friday August 29th 2003 The Latter Half of Thursday After re-aquiring the laptop yesterday, we went to visit Finnur’s grandma, Inga, and then my cousin Ríkey (she’s female!). There we got a good look at her boyfriend and their really nice apartment. Remarkably, she does not appear or claim to be pregnant! 🙂 Along forRead more

Thursday August 28th 2003 The Panic As Usual It appears that a couple of days before leaving Iceland for USA, something happens that really gets us panicked! Last year it was the fact that Finnur couldn’t enter the USA ahead of me, since we were initiating a new VISA, and he’s my “poodle” (i.e. myRead more

Tuesday August 26th 2003 Visiting Today was spent visiting various people that I haven’t seen in ages. First up were Sonja and Clint, that just had their first baby, Kamilla. She was adorable, but sadly suffering from a bad stomach (as I’m told is very common in 2-3 week old babies) and not in theRead more

Monday August 25th 2003 More baby-news! I found out yesterday that Helga, my classmate from MR junior college and basketball player with KR, is 16 weeks pregnant! She’s due in February next year, and all is looking good! This means that out of the six girls that were in our class (5-X), four have eitherRead more

Thursday August 21st 2003 Total relaxation I woke up relatively early this morning, and continued reading “Women dialated 1 cm get no symphathy” or “Konur með einn í útvíkkun fá enga samúð”, which is a collection of 70 Icelandic birth stories (one of which we ourselves witnessed!). I started reading the book yesterday at aRead more

Wednesday August 20th 2003 The insanity begins Starting today, all the “junior college” schools in Iceland (for 16-20 year olds, after that you go straight to university and don’t do any more “common” courses, just the stuff you want to learn) are starting up – and my oldest brother is a freshman in one ofRead more

Monday August 18th 2003 A rainy day in paradise Yesterday’s birthday-bash was a success! The weather behaved itself, so the guests could stay in the garden, which was fortunate since it’s virtually impossible to squeese 70 people into my in-laws’ house… I took some 130 pictures (I should write a book: “How to be anti-social”;Read more

Sunday August 17th 2003 Big birthday bash-day Today is Finnur’s dad’s 60th birthday, so they (my in-laws) are throwing a big party here at their house. I think they’ve invited about 70 people over, so the weather better stay good (it’s looking really good right now, but you never know in Iceland) so they canRead more