New Year’s Eve

2011-12-31Finnur's family, Hrefna's family, New Year's Eve Standard

We spent the last day of the year 2011 in pretty standard fashion. We began by attending The Annual Dinner With Finnur’s Family (and a couple of their friends) at the lovely adobe of Finnur’s uncle and his wife. After eating far too much, and playing with fireworks, we hightailed it to Hrefna’s family where we hiked up to the hill shortly before midnight (also an annual tradition) and attempted to see the crazy amount of fireworks being fired up at the new year.

Finnur's family and friends at the annual family new year's eve dinner.

Festive decorations.

The boys checking out the stash of fireworks in the garage.

Jonna putting the finishing touches on the buffet table.

Our hosts: Uncle Tómas and Jonna.

Mmmm... food, glorious food! 🙂

After dinner, we took the kids out to play with some fire... works.

Fancy...!

Finnur assisting Bjarki holding a green flare.

Anna's turn to hold a flare.

Fire-fun for the whole family! 🙂

The two brothers, with little ones.

Bjarki with his cousin, Ragnheiður.

Hreiðar with his Edda.

The two Annas.

Ragnheiður and her mom, Eyrún.

Anna playing cards with Vignir.

We dashed between municipalities just as the Annual Comedy Show was about to begin at 22:30. Once that was over, we hiked up onto the hill to watch the annual epic fireworks-display-of-crazy-Icelanders. This was as good as it got though because it took about 5-10 minutes before visibility went down to about 200 m due to excessive smoke and no wind.

I handed my camera over to Bjarni, who proceeded to take the next few photos. Here are Signý and Pétur.

Ásdís Sól doing her best Pokemon impression.

Nökkvi with his Ylfa Marín, who was not thrilled with all the noise.

Bjarki, me (!!) covering his ears, and Anna.

Family members sitting on a ledge. I'd left the 50 mm lens on the camera, which probably wasn't the smartest choice under the circumstances, seeing how hard it was to get a lot of people onto one image.