New Year’s Eve – 2015 Edition
[Some photos from New Year’s Eve 31 December 2015, pre-and post-midnight. Put online on 24 January 2016. The snow seems to be retreating a bit, I can see grass.]
We spent this past New Year’s Eve with Finnur’s family, as has been our habit lately. This year, Finnur’s uncle and his wife hosted a lovely party, a hop and a skip away from us, with tons of fantastic food.
Shortly before 9 pm, I dragged a few people (mostly kids) with me on a short walk to check out two ‘proper’ fireworks-displays. They’re hosted by the ICE-SAR units in Kópavogur and Garðabær, respectively, and always feature the big-bada-boom fireworks. It so happens that if you stand on the ridge that separates Kópavogur and Garðabær, you can watch the two shows.
Back at the party, we chatted more, ate more, and watched the annual comedy hour, which was somewhat meh this year. Then it was 23:30 and we went outside to shoot up some fireworks and witness the neighbors go bonkers with theirs.
All pretty standard stuff, but it was fun anyway! ALL THE PHOTOS ARE HERE, if anybody’s interested. Here are a few as well: (28 images total)
The five of us! In one photo!
Ok, back to the beginning. Here’s the living room, filling up with people.
The kids sought refuge in the conservatory, where the toys and games are stored.
Our hosts, Jonna and Tómas, brother of Þórarinn, father of Finnur, husband of mine.
Vignir tallying up the points from a game he conducted. He had us make as many singular nouns from the letters in “svik og prettir” as we could in 10 minutes. Finnur and I were victorious!
About to head off to watch the fireworks-display.
This is from Kópavogur’s show. I’ve pretty much given up on taking photos of fireworks!
We ran some 20 m down the hill to watch Garðabær’s show, which would otherwise have been hidden by apartment blocks.
Bjarki was incredibly excited to begin, as he’s now old enough to get to light some fireworks!
Back inside, before the annual comedy hour, the homemade ice-cream was phenomenal!
On the sofa, as the annual comedy show was about to begin at 22:30.
At 23:30, the show ended and we all went outside. Here’s Emma, deciding how she feels about the fireworks going on in front of her.
Oh yeah, now we’re talking!
Finnur guiding Bjarki on how to light fireworks.
Bjarki doing well.
The three kiddos.
Neighbors going bonkers.
Emma kept wanting to light fireworks, just like the big siblings, so I let her pretend light them, just so that she would stop walking towards the shooting pad!
Hrefna (me!) and Anna.
20 minutes past midnight, and the fireworks were still going strong, although the weather conditions were deteriorating rapidly.
Flare-time!
Window decoration.
Anna cleaning up most of the junk as a hail-storm hit.
Back inside, Emma putting her cute on.
Jonna is a master decorator.
Caught in the act!
Bugles! Interestingly, Bugles has traditionally been called “böggless” in Icelandic, which sounds exactly like “Bug Less” when you say it. I wonder if General Mills knows?
The finest of them all!
Happy New Year Everybody!!!
