Sewing Club Housewife Vacation
[Photos from the weekend of 4th and 5th October, words and layout from 30 December 2014.]
One of the girls (ok, women, I guess we’re all well over thirty!) in a sewing club I belong to has access to a lovely summer house not too far away from the capital area.
Over the past few years, we’ve all tried to gather there for an overnight stay, at least once per year. We call it a ‘housewife vacation’ since we all have 2 or 3 children, and really, taking a break from them can be a very good thing!
This time six out of eight could make it. Some arrived late on the Friday evening, but I hitched a ride on the Saturday, and we met up with the gang at the Fontana Geothermal Baths at Laugarvatn. (19 images total)
The first snow of the season.
Five fabulous ones posing outside Fontana.
Fontana is basically a glorified collection of hot tubs, but their main attraction are steam rooms that sit right on top of a natural steam vent, with the sulfuric smell to prove it. The entrance fee is exorbitant for what’s on offer, but it’s fairly easy to get a two-for-one entry if you belong to this or that club, which makes it slightly easier to swallow.
A glimpse of the hot-tubbery.
Teatime post soaking at the summer house.
Later, a simple dinner was prepared.
This is the kind of food I myself never prepare, but really enjoy!
Good times being had!
Yours truly!
Truly excellent chicken soup.
Chatting, chatting. We don’t sew any clothes in this sewing club, just conversations.
Listening is good too.
The evening was spent chatting away.
After we crawled out of bed sometime late the morning after (Sunday), we made a scrumptious breakfast.
The pancake master.
Yum!
Nice view!
We tried but mostly failed.
Digestive chatting. I think we decided to continue it in the hot tub a little while later.
After packing up, and mostly cleaning, we finished off the last of the leftover food, before finishing cleaning and heading back home.