Team Building, Gymnastics Show & Graduation

2019-05-29Finnur's family, Us Standard

[Photos from 29 May 2019 to 31 May 2019, posted online 24 November 2019. After a warm spell, we’re back to slightly freezing temps. Finnur heads back to Iceland from California today.]

My group at work has gone through a lot of managers in a short amount of time. As the third manager in four years took the reins (and Excel duty), it was, yet again, time for a bit of team-building. This time the fun-committee decided we should go fishing on a boat, and finish off with a darts competition!

The next day was a public holiday, with all three kids participating in the annual end-of-school-year gymnastics show. This year the theme was superheroes, and what they do is have all the different groups do a particular hero and then rotate them over five shows, so that everybody gets to participate.

The third busy day in a row, we (the adults) attended the graduation party of Finnur’s nephew from junior college. I took some photos of them out in the grassy field behind the church, and got my first insect bites of the season! (45-ish photos total)

Wednesday 29 May 2019

Walking aboard the white and blue boat there on the right.
Speeding away from civilization.
A selfie in a speeding boat.
The captains.
Coworkers busy trying to fish some fish.
The captain ended up moving the boat something like seven times to try and find a good spot.
Mount Esja, the city mountain of Reykjavik.
At long last, the captain found what he was looking for, and we began catching one fish after another. We ended up throwing most of them back in, as they were too small.
Yours truly!
The birdies caught on to what was going on pretty quickly.
The captain working the fish, before putting it on the BBQ!
A bucket of dead fish. Sorry, not sorry!
Some very very fresh fish about to be cooked.
Looking good!
After we’d had enough for fishing, and had enough fish to eat, we all went below deck, and ate dinner!
Dinner is served!
Back on mostly solid land. We walked a hop and skip over to a large office our company rents nearby, where I proceeded to mostly suck at darts 🙂
Walking back to the car at 11 pm. The sun was apparently thinking of maybe setting.
Ships are still being mended by Reykjavik harbor.

Thursday 30 May 2019

At the first gymnastics show of the day, which Anna and Bjarki participated in. Before the shows start, it is customary to dole out recognition and rewards for jobs well done. Bjarki’s training group got a reward for making very good progress that year, and they all got medals.
For the first show, I sat in the “multiple shows” side-seats, as parents were only required to buy actual numbered seats for one show.
Bjarki’s group, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, running a circuit and doing jumps while a song played.
The parkour kids.
The show was full of cool moments, the organizers have really figured out what you need. Apparently good lighting is key!
The participants all on the floor for the final cheering!
Two siblings. Anna’s group was Mystique, and performed in three shows.
Three hours later, it was time for Emma’s group to participate, as Robin.
Slightly different flag-salute to prior years.
This time we had seats on the bleachers. This is what the girls did as Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, very different from the boys!
The Robins doing their routine, with some guidance.
The Mystiques.
Multiple Jokers, and Harley Quinns, mid-swing.
About an hour after it started, it was all over!
The gymnastics siblings!

Friday 31 May 2019

Finnur’s sister asked me to take photos during her son’s graduation, which made me realize I had no idea where the camera was!! After days of searching, I finally found it in a very random place, and took a handful of photos of the kids to make sure it still worked. 🙂
Mr. B.
At the junior college graduation party for Finnur’s nephew. Here he is with his parents, by all the food!
Eating time!
Speech, speech!
I dragged the poor kiddo outside for a few photos.
With his maternal grandparents.
Mother and son.
The most hilarious photo of them all! 🙂
It was a good day!!