Goodbye 2019, Hello 2020

2019-12-31Uncategorized Standard

[Photos taken 31 December 2019 to 01 January 2020, posted online 05 July 2020. What a difference six months make.]

New Year’s Eve was a traditional one, with us hanging out with Finnur’s family at his parents’ place.

Happy New Year, everybody!? (60-ish images total)

Tuesday 31 December 2019

Celebrating the arrival of 2020. If only we knew then what we knew now!
Emma with grandma Anna.
Hard at work in the kitchen.
Deep-fried “bread”, called Leaf-bread (Laufabrauð).
A hung leg of lamb.
A sauce in the making.
Anna by the tree.
Bjarki passing the time by playing with magnets.
Gravlax on the table.
Pizza buns.
One of the yule-tide symbols from the flower world.
Cute yule-children.
Adorable train.
The kitchen master.
Checking out one of the newest members of the family.
Concentration.
Proof I was there.
Excited for fireworks!
Emma.
Table filling up. The party is now an organized pot-luck.
Hungry yet?
The hosts just before everyone was invited to start chowing down.
Eating in progress.
Soooo, who wants to go outside and shoot fireworks?
Bjarki on fire duty.
Bamm!
Action shot!
Emma with a bright flare.
Woooosh!
The shooters.
Men walking away from fireworks.
Bzzzzzz!
Emma with a starlight.
Co-operation.
Never gets old.
Neighbors being busy.
Inside it was time for dessert.
Om-nom-nom.
Everyone watching the year-end-annual-comedy-hour.
Back outside again, for the finale.
Daughter and mother.
Cake.
6 minutes before midnight.
Lighting a cake.
Every year a white van full of massive cakes is driven to an empty spot below those houses, and then it’s cake-o-rama!
So much banging!
Fireworks everywhere!
Siblings playing at 4 minutes before midnight.
Bjarki lamenting the dying of his flare, Anna victorious.
Sisters.
Explosive Bjarki.
The sky.
Midnight has arrived, hello 2020!
Back inside, toasting time.
17 minutes past midnight, time to start thinking about heading home.
Looking a little tired.
Bjarki, happy with his sugary drink.
The hosts checking social media.

Wednesday 01 January 2020

It was a calm day, but I did manage to find a cafe that was open (Kaffibrennslan) so that’s where I went to sort through some photos and blog a bit. And thus 2020 had begun!