House #2, Confirmation Looms & Eruption!

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[Photos taken 12-20 March 2021, posted online 19 July 2021. Heading to Húsafell on a couples trip, no children in tow!]

We went to check on house #2, enjoyed some good weather and northern lights, and then the main thing became planning and preparing Bjarki’s upcoming confirmation party on 21 March. Not surprisingly, due to all the preceding earthquakes, the ground opened up on 19 March, and a volcanic eruption began, which is still ongoing. (30-ish images total)

Friday 12 March 2021

Clouds playing on mountains.
Random snow blows off of mount Hafnarfjall cut down on the visibility, and the cars slowed down to a crawl.

Saturday 13 March 2021

Post-lunch dippage.
Yes, we finally changed that filter.
Some mothers are very good at playing board-games with the young, I’m not really one of them!
Arty trains.
Having finally painted the walls, I put up these shelves I’d bought eons ago. Still not sure what to put on them.
Also put up these behind-the-door hangers.
Manly men doing manly things.
The northern lights paid a visit that evening. My camera did not cooperate.
Finnur’s camera did better. I foresee a phone-tripod in our future!

Sunday 14 March 2021

Pre-lunch dipping.
Living room loungers.
It was one of those gorgeous days!
Driving back home, in our borrowed tank of a car.
Meanwhile… one of my brothers posted this to Instagram. The caption is “Normal”.

Monday 15 March 2021

I discovered there’s a clothing alterations company in our local mall!
Bjarki and I went there to get his trousers taken in, and we stopped by in this lovely mini-cafe on our way out. Sadly, their hot chocolate is the swiss miss kind. Ugh.

Tuesday 16 March 2021

A post on social media reminded me that this day marked 20 years from the passing of Clare. I went searching for photos of her and dad, and found to my surprise that Clare was really good at evading my camera. Dad will just have to put up with this one of him probably wondering what was taking me so long?!
This was a muggy day, as I walked to pass the time while Bjarki had a guitar lesson.
Muggy outfit.
Muggy river.

Wednesday 17 March 2021

We went to check out the banquet room we’d reserved pre-covid (24 February 2020!) for Bjarki’s confirmation party.
Yes, this will do nicely, thank you!

Friday 19 March 2021

Getting a hair-cut in-between organizing last-minute catering for the confirmation party that Sunday.
Bjarki’s hair also got a touch-up.
Music-theory walk to shake off the party nerves.
Me stressed? No, that never happens.
That evening, a volcanic eruption started a hop and a skip away from the capital area, sort of midway between us and the international airport.
First airborne image, taken from vedur.is probably. It turned out to be of the tourist-y variety.

Saturday 20 March 2021

Anna and myself went hunting for fancy clothing. Sadly, I couldn’t find anything for myself, but Anna got a fantastic outfit. The biggest drama became trying to get out of the parking garage as the payment system had recently changed, and as we didn’t see/manage to read those mangled pieces of paper on the non-driver side when we entered, we’d ended up using the wrong app to pay for the parking. We weren’t the only ones in trouble that day, but thankfully the lady at the end of that phone number was kind enough to open the gate.