The Rest of August

Anna and Emma at the Subway stop leading out of the city. Our destination: the summer house in Laugarvatn with some friends.

Bjark with his head in a Syrpa, yet again.

Enjoying a scrumptious dinner with Ragnar, Agnes and kids.

Raggi manning the BBQ.

The kids being obnoxious to each other. Seven kids wanting to jump is a lot.

Anti-social teenagers practicing their craft.

There was also wrestling! All in good fun though.

First Day of School! Well, sort of. It was the “pick up your schedule and see which room you’ll be in”-day. Bjarki was a little tired and apprehensive.

Bjarki’s in a class of about 30 kids, split into four groups, and they have two teachers, and two adjoining rooms. Every month the groups rotate between teachers.

Anna’s turn.

Adorably, Anna’s classroom has a mixture of large and small furniture.  She’s in a class of 23 kids.

For some reason we then ended up at Ikea at the end of the day.

And then there was the labeling. So happy Anna can be trusted to label her own stuff!

After a lot of ho-humming and wonderings, I finally dragged Bjarki to the doctor’s office to have his sinuses checked. The doctor kindly ordered an x-ray, which was conveniently located on the floor above.

Bjarki’s head. How does anybody read heads or tails out of this?!

Spooky!  To cut a long story short, Bjarki was found to have a nasty sinus infection, even though his nose was no longer running. Antibiotics time!

We finished this day of errands with getting Anna a haircut.

Adorable munchkin!!

I was inspired by the good weather, and some photos of people being productive on Facebook, to actually go out and slather staining on the neglected deck.

These two are related.

More staining! Our balcony was looking very sad, so it got spruced up a bit.

It’s looking like we need to paint the house itself next summer.

Summer flowers barely hanging in there after two dry weeks while we were abroad.

Neglected strawberry plants.

But I found one yummy strawberry!