Days #0-1 in CO: Travel, Playground, Creek, & Shoes

2018-07-11Uncategorized Standard

[Photos taken on 11-12 July 2018, posted on 3 January 2019.  Back to work yesterday]

For our summer vacation this year, we traveled to Colorado, to stay with our good friends Sarah and Augusto. They kindly housed us for two weeks, which was great! (25-ish images)

Wednesday 11 July 2018

Four travelers at Keflavik airport. The flights to the US always leave around 5 pm, which works pretty well.
Earlier in the day, Bjarki tired out summer clothes that he got for his birthday. They met with his approval!
I ventured downtown for lunch to charge my batteries at a cafe. The weather was cloudy, with a large chance of rain. No surprise there.
By 1:30 pm we were packing.
I like taking a photo of the car to remember where we parked it at the airport. This was at 3 pm.
Decent food, but that was about it.
On the move!
Getting on a shuttle. Gone are the days when all the planes fit at the terminal itself.
The usual weather-misery.
Goodbye Wet-land. We like the entertainment system Icelandair offers.
Some 8 hours later tired kids ended up on the floor at Denver airport while we waited for our luggage. I don’t think any of them slept on the flight!
Augusto kindly met us at the airport, and drove ahead of our rental to guide the way.

Thursday 12 July 2018

We had decided to lay low that first day. Our first adventure was to take a walk to a nearby playground and creek.
Anna hiding in the shade and coloring a bit. It was REALLY warm!
US style swings. The plastic doesn’t last in Iceland.
We then checked out the creek, a hop and a skip away from the playground.
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Anna also went for it (wait for it to load).
Emma crossing back and forth. This proved to be a popular activity!
Random US flag in the grass on the way back.
We drove downtown to buy sandals for the kids. It was way too warm to wear closed shoes! The recommended and very good shoe store had this crazy step area, which the kids went wild on.
Modeling their shoes. They were hard to find since everybody had already bought their sandals!
Tickle session. (Wait for it to load)
White-boarding with Sarah and Augusto’s son.
The youngest two had fun with water.