Late August Visit to Laugarvatn
[Photos from 20-21 August 2016, posted online 25-ish October 2016. We had a little bit of snow this morning, a first this winter. Haha, very funny! It’s now 6 NOVEMBER. The snow stuck around for 15 minutes, it’s been borderline warm since then!]
Our friends, Holla and Óli, tend to be such busy people in the summertime that the only way to meet up with them is to drag them off to the summer house at Laugarvatn. So we did! (38 images total)
Saturday 20 August 2016
Picking blueberries in the blazing sun!
Emma and her beautifully colored hair!
A flower.
Blueberries.
Emma was surprisingly good about picking the berries, and putting them into a bowl, and not her mouth.
Ms. Anna.
Holla taking two seconds to look up from the berries.
Back at the house, the kids could occasionally be convinced to lay down the minecraft-tablets.
Sunday 21 August 2016
Hamburgers are a staple of any trip to the summer house.
Photographing burgers with a macro-lens. I still have a lot to learn about that!
A selfie in Finnur’s eye.
Emma looking hungry.
The spider behind the bbq.
Óli, the master handyman.
Finnur at a good moment.
Emma with the ever popular Fisher-Price school house.
Holla writing into the guestbook. It doesn’t get used a lot, so it covers a lot of time.
As we were packing up, Bjarki hijacked the camera, and went on a photo-taking spree.
We’ve yet to fulfill our promise of bringing no computers to the summer house. How would we survive?!
Holla and Óli took off into town ahead of us. We decided to eat an early dinner at the Lindin restaurant in Laugarvatn. “Laugarvatn” means “Bathing-Lake”, referring to the fact that hot water seeps into the lake.
The chaotic back seat. We recently swapped the kids about to separate Emma and Bjarki, as they can’t leave each other alone when bored.
The restaurant is in that blue house.
We went inside, ordered, and then sent the kids out with the big camera to hang out by the lake.
It was a beautiful day.
I wonder what comes out of that pipe…
Five seconds of tranquility.
Mr. Bjarki by Ms. Anna.
Stuff in the water.
That building there is the Fontana hot-tub/sauna place. It derives all its heat from a hole in the ground a little ways away.
Fontana bathers in the water.
Emma.
Bjarki wandering about.
Emma checking out the water. Warm water seeps into the lake here and there. It’s very weird.
Exploring a bit further afield.
Bjarki leaping!
Back in the water.
Dinner time!
Heading back inside to eat dinner. It was fun going over these photos to see what the kids got up to!
