Spring Gymnastics Show & 20 Year Reunion
[Photos from Saturday 4 June 2016, posted on Sunday 12 June 2016. Finnur’s traveling to Munchen for four days.]
My last Finnur-less day, for the time being, was packed to the gills, with Bjarki’s year-end big gymnastics show starting at 1 pm, then driving the kiddos to their respective babysitters, before joining my 20 year Junior College (MR) reunion, which had events beginning at 2 pm and lasting long into the evening.
And of course Emma starting the day by falling ill with a spring cold.
Being a third child, I took her temperature at noon (38.5 C/ 101.3 F), gave her fever-reducing medication, dragged her to see Bjarki’s show (It. Was. Amazing!), dropped Bjarki off at Steinunn’s, and Emma off at her grandparents’, and then reunioned until about 9 pm, at which point drove back to pick Emma up, and took her home. (Phew!)
The final numbers of the evening: 39.4 C/ 102.9 F, followed by another fever-reducer. (19 images total, 1 video playlist)
Bjarki, with the pineapple who wanted to be a dictator/king, and was thwarted by the other fruits in the fruit bowl (aka Ávaxtakarfan).
Back to the beginning. This is us arriving at the gymnastics-hall.
Emma was pretty ambivalent about the whole thing, and wanted to leave before it had even begun.
I’ve been going to the year-end show for a few years now, and this was the best one so far. It helped that for the first time ever there was a live band, and a school choir! I also discover every year that I’ve forgotten to image the sides of the room, where gymnasts do cool stuff on various apparatus, during the show.
They always do a remarkably good job of weaving the performances into the story (or the story around the performances?) This, the bananas, was the only group with a grown-up trainer out in front. Breaking with previous years, the other youngsters had slightly older youngsters directing them. Impressive!
Bjarki’s group, aka the pineapples. He was in the back row, between the two full yellow lights. See also a video clip below for the full routine. They had no one directing them, so the timing was a bit willy-nilly, but they still had the funniest routine of the day.
A collection of video clips from the show. Includes short preshow song by the band,
Monkeying around after the show.
When I finally managed to extract the kids from the gym-equipment, we drove to Steinunn’s and left Bjarki with her.
It took a while to get Emma to leave the playground in front of Steinunn’s house. I took her to her grandparents’s place and zoomed on home for a change of clothes.
After a quick clothes-change, I finally made it to the pre-pre-party!
So great to see these lovely ladies again. Sonja (on the right) even flew in from the US for the weekend especially for this event.
Apparently, blue is in fashion for men’s suits!
Class-mates!
From there, we moved to a pre-party hosted by a financial company headed by one of the guys in our year. It owns half of the city, or something. Oh, and this was in their art gallery.
Nice backyard! Those hay-things are art installations, apparently!
Speech time!
After the pre-party, we ended up at KEX restaurant/bar where some food was consumed, and more fun was had.
Funny speeches are good. He was followed by a stand-up comedian, who had everybody in stitches.
That was the end of that adventure, but it was great meeting up with so many people after so long.
The next morning Finnur re-appeared (physically at least, the jet-lag kept him mentally somewhere else for a bit). See, look, photographic evidence!
Finnur, hiding in the dark with his computer. (What dark? There is no dark! Must have been my camera acting up.)
