Lava-Looking, Tidying & Filling House #2

2021-06-27Finnur's family, Us Standard

[Photos taken 23 – 27 June 2021, posted online 12 September 2021. The remnants of hurricane Larry are visiting Iceland.]

I’d been waiting for the weather to be nice enough to warrant a walk to the active volcano eruption, and finally the conditions lined up nicely, weather-and-wind-wise. Bjarki and Anna decided to join me, we ate a fast-food hamburger dinner, and then drove about 40 minutes to the parking lot by the main walking path.

There was no fresh lava flowing, but we enjoyed walking alongside the newly hardened lava, spotting one hole into a red-hot furnace, and had ourselves a small picnic.

The first two weeks of Emma’s horse riding school came to a close with a “show”, Bjarki departed on a two-night gymnastics trip, home-tidying commenced as birthday-celebrations loomed, and we hosted Finnur’s family (adults only) at house #2. (55-ish images total)

Wednesday 23 June 2021

The traveling trio, about as far as we went into the valley of Nátthagi. Yes, that cloud rising up to the sky is the volcano itself. We decided against walking up on the ridge to the right, but that will be the next trip, whenever that may happen.
The red marks where we walked. This photo appeared in the newspaper about the same time.
Dinner at American Style, under Slash’s hidden gaze.
Extra pretty weather, this was shortly past 7 pm.
The parking lot was pretty packed.
About to start our hike at 19:50.
Somewhat dystopian scenery.
Looking back towards the car parks.
Follow the cloud!
Surveying the fresh lava.
We moved onwards, there were a number of folks by the edge, taking photos, and poking the rocks.
The fumes were quite ugh. We moved further up the hillside to get a break.
Out of fume-shot.
Ooooh, something red-hot!
Posers. Occasionally, we’d hear loud cracks as rock was rearranging itself.
Not a lot of lava has moved that far down that valley when this is written, so these rocks might still be visible?
I was there!
About as far as we went, it was getting late o’clock! (9 pm)
Good times!
Back at the red-hot-spot.
Picnic time!
Contemplating life.
By the far edge/end of the lava field. We met or heard people from a lot of different countries, and a few natives.
Heading back to the car at 10 pm. The sun painted nature in gorgeous colors!
Happy siblings.
The parking lot came back into view.
There are a lot of funky antennas by Grindavík. I think some of them are for submarine-transmissions.

Thursday 24 June 2021

Bjarki about to go on a training trip with his gymnastics club. They drove to a town 30 minutes away that has a new gymnastics hall, and were there for two nights, sleeping on mattresses in some school rooms.
Finnur drove to house #2 to prepare for his family visiting the coming weekend (still had fly-nets to make!) so in a fit of utter laziness us girls ate dinner at Ikea.
The line to get food was endless and kept regenerating!

Friday 25 June 2021

At the horse-riding-school for the end-of-course show.
Apparently, decorating the horses is the main thing!
Emma doing her thing.
With her participation medal.
Meanwhile, we got this social media post proving the gymnastics kids were doing fiiiine!
Thankfully, covid-19 vaccination rates kept rising as people got vaccinated as a part of their civic duty.

Saturday 26 July 2021

I had a ton of tasks I wanted to complete before joining Finnur and his family at house #2. First up, sorting through and putting away the forever pile of stuff on the far end of the kitchen table. You see, we had a birthday celebration coming up!
Like magic!
I drilled holes into the garage ceiling to fit in a boxing pillow, as requested by the big kids. (Have they used it? Not really…)
Emma’s art corner got seriously decluttered.
The curse of the stairs.
It turned out that a bunch of grass seeds had landed where we put the bird feed, in clear sight of the house, so I decided to clear those away before they got their roots settled too deep.
Last up: mowing the lawn, and planting a few flowers, which Emma then watered.
Fully clothed watering in progress to combat against flies.
A friend of Emma’s came over and we opened up the hot tub. It was a gooorgeous day!
I arrived up to house #2 around 6 pm, and it sure is good we have a large parking area!
The weather was so good (and the biting midget flies hadn’t woken up yet, due to the cold spring) that we decided to eat dinner outside, which has NEVER happened.
Laaamb, get in my tummy!
I took some people on a woodsy-walk down the hill.
Unreal.
Scrumptious dessert being devoured!
Hot tubbers. 🙂

Sunday 27 June 2021

Breakfast for a lot of people!
Group photo!
The flowers still hanging on.
About to make a quick pit-stop in Borgarnes to fuel up for the drive back home.