Easter Day 2016
[Photos from Easter Sunday 27 March 2016, posted online 31 March 2016. We just finished all the chocolate.]
Easter Sunday began unusually calmly, as the smaller two kids seemed happy to hang out in computer-land for most of the morning, or until the resident teenager woke up around 10 am. The kids then hid our eggs, we hid their eggs, and chocolate bunnies, and then we all overdosed on chocolate.
Around lunchtime we went to Finnur’s parents’ place to eat good food, enjoy good company, and play social whist. Bjarki participated in the whist for the first time, and handled it well, although he joined his grandparents near the bottom of the final score pile. Finnur was victorious though, just like last Easter!
Here, have some photos (33 images total) or if that’s not enough, HERE ARE ALL OF THEM.
The kiddos with their standard issue Icelandic Easter eggs.
Here they are with their entire chocolate haul! Yup, we brought back Easter bunnies from the UK in February!
My egg, and the kids attacking theirs.
All the Icelandic eggs have sayings in them, a la Chinese fortune cookies. Finnur’s was “Bilindur er bóklaus maður”, or “Blind is a man with no books.”
Anna got: “Steinn prófar gull en gull menn”or “Rock tests gold but gold test men”.
Bjarki got: “Hálfnað er verk þá hafið er” or “A job is half done once started”.
Emma got “Kólnar heitt ef köldu er á blásið” or “Hot stuff cools if cold is blown on it”.
I got “Lengi býr að fyrstu gerð” or “The groundwork has lasting effects”.
All the candy (and %#$” plastic wrappers) inside the egg make for quite a pile!
Good times!
We then made our way to Finnur’s parents’ home.
Finnur’s dad was in charge of the cooking as usual.
Since we were unusually short on people (two families missing) three of the younger kids were roped into playing. Here two of them are in training.
Bjarki and some Easter lilies.
Grandma arrives bearing gifts for the grandkids!
Eating time! The food was excellent as always.
They have the most awesome decorations!
USA-born plastic Easter eggs with candy, ready to be distributed around the living room.
The hunt went by in a flash! Bjarki scored the biggest haul by far!
Emma with her haul.
Cutting out scoring sheets for the whist tournament. Hreiðar (husband of Inga, sister of Finnur) took this photo and the next few ones.
Anna by Hreiðar.
Tulips flowers by Hreiðar.
Orchid by Hreiðar.
The grandparents playing the last trick against Bjarki, and his two younger cousins who were playing together.
We really liked this card-holder. I think Finnur took this photo.
This hand worked surprisingly well for the “opposite” round.
More playing, for a whole 12 rounds!
Finnur won! Here he’s getting the traveling trophy.
Bjarki wanted to hold it too.
Ice cream time!
Granddad with his youngest grandchild.
We need to buy some of these!
After all the playing and eating, it was dinner time, and we headed home to eat some more chocolate.
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