Christmas!

2011-12-24Uncategorized Standard

Begin info dump: Icelanders celebrate Christmas on Christmas Eve. The celebrations begin at 6pm with a fancy meal, followed by the all-important opening of presents. End info dump.

Christmas (Eve)/Yule/Solstice arrived in a flurry of snow. The trickiest part of the day is keeping the kids sane, because, duh, PRESENTS!! We somehow managed to convince them to go outside, just as a blizzard descended, and

The kids out in the backyard as snow is beginning to fall.

Here comes the small blizzard... "You kids cold?" "Yeees...!" "Well, stay outside for 10 more minutes and then you can come in..."

Some 20 minutes later the blizzard had mostly died down and Anna had built a snowman.

The Yule-ified living room. 🙂

Finnur did ALL the cooking (as usual on fancy occasions). Here he's making Ris a la Mande, which is a bowl containing rice, whipped cream, clementines, vanilla, sugar and chopped almonds - with One Whole Almond. The person to get the One Whole Almond wins a price. Not surprisingly, Finnur won the price (as usual!), which was a bunch of toblerone chocolate.