Country Easter Break

2021-04-01Easter Standard

[Photos taken 01-05 April 2021, posted online 26 July 2021. Current domestic regulations stipulate max 200 people per area, so all merchant-holiday-festivals this coming weekend are cancelled. Minimum distance is at 1 m, and people are being asked to mask up again, although, unfortunately, the wording of the mask-rules is muddy.]

House #2 came in surprisingly handy over the Easter break and beyond, as we were all sick and tired of home-home.

Some friends of our asked if they could join us, and arrived late the day they cleared quarantine as a kid at their kid’s school had been diagnosed with covid-19 the week before. We chilled, baked, played games, walked, ate, and chilled some more. (55-ish images total)

Thursday 01 April 2021

April began with mugginess. I went out on a slow jog…
Proof I made it to the ridiculously big golf-ball by the driveway to Indriðastaðir.
A person and her dog came my way, as I was selfie-ing! Usually not a lot of people around.
In spite of the mugginess, it thankfully wasn’t raining much.
Still ice around the streams.
Like the sane person I am, I decided this would be the time to paint the guest-bedroom that people would be sleeping in that night.
My motivation was to fix the mess above the door, where once upon a time there had been a shelf holding a DVD player, and antenna cables running to the tv on the other side of the wall. The antenna cables were no longer in use as we took the antenna down a long time ago, I just removed them.
Same color as in the master bedroom.
Six hours later… I think it looks friendlier, aside from the blue monster which I really should have painted over! Now there is a mirror there.
Emma enjoying the big fan running, as I attempted to clear the air in the room.

Friday 02 April 2021

My one lesson from disastrous summer vacations of the past, is that I have to make sure I get time by myself away from family and friends, or I’ll end up utterly exhausted, as otherwise I remain “on guard” non-stop. By noon I therefore found myself at our favorite cafe in Borgarnes.
Live – Love – Enjoy, in Icelandic. And yes, behind my head are naked boobies, stitched!
“My usual”. People began trickling in, and about two hours later it was filling up and I took off.
Back at house #2, Adda was enjoying an Icelandic sunbathe. It’s when you sit in the sun while heavily clothed because it’s actually quite cold outside.
Anna working hard on the big project that day. muffin-making!
Adda mugs for the camera with the enormous muffin-haul.
All hands on deck decorating muffins!
Sugar on top of sugar on top of sugar.
Feeling sugar-bloated, Adda and I ventured out on a walk in the super-chilly wind.
The valley looked lovely.
By the flats above our house. I’m pretty sure there is land for sale up there.

Saturday 03 April 2021

Leftovers for lunch, yum!
Halli and myself finally played the final game in the Pandemic Legacy Season 2 game. I think we actually survived it, and the final score was “average to above average”. Overall this game was not as much fun as Season 1, but at least we stuck with it the whole way through, even though it took about two years to finish!
Adda working on more muffing icing, the boys playing a new game.
Icing, part 2.
Moar muffins!!
The most exciting part of the day: a new game!!
Oooooh! Exciting!!

Easter Sunday 04 April 2021

Siblings and their eggs, before they got hidden away. (The eggs that is).
Sofa dwellers.
Finnur takes great joy in hiding eggs. Can you spot it?
Finnur laying down the egg-search rules…
Children wandering about, looking for chocolate. In the foreground are Anna’s plants that we took with us to make sure they didn’t dry out during our time away from home!
Finnur enjoying the searching.
My reading material, I read the trilogy over the Easter break.
Lovely view!
After some hinting, the hardest egg was found, and then it was time to dig in!
Eggs in bowls. Ready, steady, SMASH!
Bjarki’s egg had TWO sayings! 1) “Léttara er að lofa en enda (enda=efna)”, i.e. it is easier to promise than follow through with said promise, and 2) “Ef stendur í hverri lögbók” or “There’s an if in every lawbook”.
Anna’s was “Eigi veldur sá er varar annan” or the person who warns another is not at fault/the perpetrator.
Emma got “Betra er yndi en auður.” or loveliness beats wealth.
Finnur’s was “Sá er drengur sem við gengur” or you are a (good?) “boy” if you admit.
Mine was “Aldrei er svo djúpur brunnur að ei verði upp ausinn” or no well is so deep that it can not be fully emptied.
Dark chocolate egg for me! The darkness slows down how fast I can eat it…!
Feeling suger-bloated again, Adda and myself went out on another walk in the freeeezing wind.
Our guests had to return to town that day, and we snuck these two to town along with them. The following day was a public holiday, and I needed to finish painting that guest-bedroom! Painting is more fun with fewer distractions around.
Au revoir!

Monday 05 April 2021

After too many head-scratchings I’ve finally learnt to photo the wiring before I tear stuff apart.
I had run out of time a few days before, and not managed to paint behind the big bunk-bed. I happily managed to finish painting, and installing a new light before the day was out.
Shortly before five, I again reported to the cafe in Borgarnes, for some mind-and-body-fuel before driving back to town.
Such an oasis!
There is no option but to relax when you sit there!
This used to be a gift- and flower shop, but now it’s also a cafe and guesthouse.
As this has been the year of never-a-dull-moment, the news reported that a new fissure had opened by the volcanic eruption… Fun times! And that was the end of the Easter break!