Summer Vacation Begins/Bjarki’s 12th Birthday Party

2019-07-10Bjarki, Finnur's family, Hrefna's family, Us Standard

[Photos from 10-12 July 2019, posted online 28 February 2020. Lots of snow falling lately, driving Anna to school in the mornings has been a bit adventurous.]

Emma finally truly graduated from daycare, as it shut down for its summer vacation. We were rather stuck-in-town though for the work-week because Anna kept working at horse-camp. Happily we finally managed to celebrate Bjarki’s 12th birthday, and even go out on a date night! (25-ish images)

Wednesday 10 July 2019

With Anna at horse-camp.
Earlier that day Emma said her final goodbyes to her wonderful daycare/playschool teachers (well, until they showed up at her new school in the fall with the next incoming class of students).
It looks like I made it to the gym in the early afternoon, now that I was formally on summer vacation!
Later on I met up with this old friend from Stanford between events in her packed schedule, as Netflix hosted their annual meeting in Iceland. And yes, she’s now the director of video algorithms at Netflix!
Some 900 Netflix employees were rumored to be in Iceland that weekend, so nothing less than one of the art museums, with additional tents was enough for such a big crowd!

Thursday 11 July 2019

We finally got around to celebrating Bjarki’s 12th birthday properly. Anna was master-cake-baker, and I master-buy-rolls-at-bakery.
Happily, the weather was nice enough to sit outside 🙂
Finnur during a bbq-pick-up. We had hot dogs and hamburgers.
Yeah, baby! Turns out I quite enjoy BBQ-ing 🙂
Self-service kitchen.
We might need more seats in the backyard?!
Paternal aunt and grandparents of the birthday boy.
Some peeps from his maternal side.
Adorbs pink hair!
Old enough to light his own candles, as dessert-time rolled around.
Enjoying getting sung for, and about to blow out his candles.
Living room peeps digesting and chatting.
The hot tub got some belated use.
Cousins.
Opening his gift-haul later that evening.
Emma doing her excited hands.
Happy boy! 🙂

Friday 12 July 2019

The end of the day found me driving around to find Emma to get her to go home for dinner. I finally spotted her!
When mom spoils the fun by announcing it’s dinner time, there is no way one agrees to sit in her car to go home!
Actually, it was just dinner time for the kiddos, as Finnur and myself had a date night in downtown Reykjavik.
Vertical food is the best food.
Clearly excited about my dinner!
We then took the bus home! 🙂