Doggy-Time, Football-Meet & Vacation-Awaiting

2020-07-02Hrefna's family, Us Standard

[Photos taken 02 – 16 July 2020, posted online 31 December 2020 09 January 2021. Here’s hoping for a less bonkers 2021…! Hahahaha! 2021 clearly isn’t going down in the which-year-was-most-crazy competition without a fight! (See US news) But local covid-19 restrictions are being loosened next week, yay!]

We timed our summer vacation to coincide with Anna’s vacation, as she only had a summer job for 6 weeks. In practice, this meant the first half of July was spent waiting for a vacation.

The biggest event of the fortnight was Emma’s big football tournament, a yearly 4-day-long event hosted by her club for about 2400 girls from all over the country. Restrictions had loosened enough to host it, but it essentially turned into three near-co-located but separate, simultaneous tournaments.

We repeatedly visited the puppy in the west end of town, and the mostly lovely weather made spending time outdoors a joy. (65-ish images total)

Thursday 02 July 2020

Emma at the end of her horse-camp day, next to a resting foal that was born that morning to the mother standing on guard.
The girls out with grandma Ásdís and Spori the ball-loving puppy. The weather was the usual combination of warm sun and cold wind.

Friday 03 July 2020

I had a monumentally hard time adjusting back to being in the office full time. I noticed that I was constantly trying to pay attention to everything that was going on around me, lest I miss something, and it left me exhausted. To save what little remained of my sanity, I took to starting the day at a cafe, where I knew none of the conversations going on around me were work-related, and I could more easily disappear into the computer. It also didn’t help that the cafe at work was still covid-closed, and I’d become a little too reliant on chocolate and coffee to start the day. 🙂
Charging the car at work is very convenient. The frowny face is because the cable needed to be fixed.
Emma in a screen-shot taken from a horse-camp post.

At the end of the day, Bjarki went and bought himself an electric scooter with his birthday money! He was beyond excited!
Unwrapping…
A 3-year old dream-come-true. I’m happy I managed to hold him off on getting one of these until the technology had matured a bit.
We recorded a snapchat-thank-you video to the families who pitched in on his birthday.
Emma found a flower for me.
Two Emmas, sitting at the same spot, eating from the same bowl, a few years apart, thanks to the Then-and-now photos feature.

Saturday 04 July 2020

We visited friends! We ate dinner together! We played a card came! What a luxury!!!

Sunday 05 July 2020

It was yet another doggy day! This time we walked him over to my brother’s et al new place.
I was fed up with my own backyard, so I brought them some flowers to liven up theirs. I don’t get any awards for flower arranging though, it wasn’t very well thought out at all, oh well.
Screen-shot from brother’s insta.
A sloooow sunset around 11 pm.

Monday 06 July 2020

Doggy duty.
I was on dinner duty.

Tuesday 07 July 2020

Emma with a bunny at that week’s camp, a hop and a skip away from the usual horse-camp. This one was called “Animals and Art” and she really liked it. The only downside was that it was only half-day but we made it work.
Anna making a snack while the puppy rests, after an exhausting walk.
Growing up is hard.
Plant in our backyard becoming colorful-ler.
I kept slow-jogging every now and then, happy to find that I could make it 5 km without stopping.
Lupine-land.

Wednesday 8 July 2020

My car was in the shop getting its annual checkup, so I had the big car that day. Was bemused to find another Jag charging in the parking lot at work and had to take a photo.

Thursday 09 July 2020

Screen-shot of Emma’s division at the upcoming football/soccer-meet.
Emma’s big football-meet was kicked off with a concert that night. Only kids and a few chaperones could be in the huddle, the parents had to socially-distance-sit on the bleachers.

Friday 10 July 2020

I discovered I’d forgotten my sporty-shoes at the gym, and they were not in the lost-and-found, so I braved the stepper sans-shoes.
Emma and her team in between games. The meet organizers asked to limit guardians, so it fell to Finnur to be our representative.
Bjarki’s friend invited him and another friend to visit the Blue Lagoon! He’s been pestering us to take him there again ever since!

Saturday 11 July 2020

My car pretending to be from the future.
We went to the library, and these were my schizophrenic picks. I’ll admit that I finished neither of them, but I got considerably further into the one on the right, until I skipped to the end.
Back to doggy-daycare.
Off we go…
The summer was an excellent one for plant growth, and good mixture of sun and rain.
Boomerang away!
A tiny moment of quiet.
Quiet almost over.
Walking back. I lived in the area for a decade, and never ever did I walk that pathway until this summer.
Meanwhile, Emma got an ice-cream for working hard.
This may have been the evening we went out to dinner with friends, then chatted at their place, before walking home at 11 pm. This whole area is about to go under construction.

Sunday 12 July 2020

The day began with football, this is at 10 am.
Afterwards, everybody got a medal, and a successful football-meet came to an end.
With summer vacation looming, I decided to get in a small travel-together practice, and took the siblings to the nearby geothermal power plant at Hellisheiði.
They have a few interactive displays, and admission was free that weekend, as they were opening up again post-covid.
By pretty rocks.
It was pretty loud out there, Emma was not a fan.
There were no staff, so we fiddled around with a Playstation console on a pulpit (?!!?) and found a few educational videos.
By a window overlooking the pipe-y area.
Bjarki found binoculars. The cylinder on the table is a power cable.
I tried matching the image to what I saw outside, and was minimally successful.
The coolest view.
I could have spent the rest of the day playing with that pipe-segment.
Next-up: Doggy-daycare.
Walking past the practice area of my past club.

Monday 13 July 2020

More doggy-daycare (well, post-work-before-dinner care).
Guarding his ball.
Animated gif, wait for it to load. Today he’s too big to be off leash there, but at that point in his life he was wayyy to scared to go off, but he sure liked chasing fast balls.
Animated gif, wait for it to load. Emma getting to throw.
Walking back.

Thursday 16 July 2020

Bjarki thoroughly enjoying a shrimp-salad-sandwich. He is his father’s son.
Evening ice-cream at Ikea, where we’d eaten dinner, as the cafeteria was open again.
Ikea is a meeting spot! And with that our summer vacation began in earnest.