Snow + Ash Wednesday (aka Icelandic Halloween)
[Photos taken on 13-14 February, posted on 15 September 2018. Us girls are at a coffee house downtown, while Bjarki is watching a movie with a friend nearby.]
It felt like February was ridiculously packed. It was sandwiched between two work-trips of mine to Canada, and contained Emma’s birthday aaand the kid’s school winter-break, during which we traveled to the UK where we left Finnur behind so he could work in London for a whole week. Phew!
In between the birthday and the UK trip were two days, the first was a standard but pretty Tuesday, while the second was Ash Wednesday, aka the Icelandic Halloween! (14 images total)
Tuesday 13 February 2018
Arriving at work at 08:15 to an eerie calm and damped lights after nighttime snowfall.
They’ve now installed quite a few electric car chargers on the parking lot, free of charge. Me likey!
The customary snow piles of February.
Inside, the house administration was dealing with the unhappy fact that our new office space was built in what is essentially a large ware-house structure with a roof that is very hard to water-seal… as evidenced by the puddle on the floor!
Emma insisted on posing with a fancy headpiece before leaving daycare.
After finishing swim-class, she insisted on decorating the decorative boxes she’d gotten for her birthday!
Wednesday 14 February 2018
Trick or treating in the neighborhood is a very recent development for Ash Wednesday. Anna decided she was too old for this foolery, so I took the younger ones out on a walk around the neighborhood.
Bjarki running down the hill from the top house. The participating houses had markers posted outside.
Emma showing the contents of her bag.
Color-correcting these images properly was so hard that I just gave up and did… something. Here’s Bjarki being very fluorescent.
Bjarki promised me that next year he’d wear a coat!
Getting darker.
A crowd of kids offering up a song for candy.
Siblings, cold, but mostly happy with their haul.
