[Photos taken 13-14 April 2022, posted online 11 20 August 2022. The first part of this was composed in Colorado, USA!]
The Wednesday had been designated “shopping day” for Anna and myself, so Finnur took the other kids to the aquarium. On Thursday we took the bus into the suburbs to go on a tree-hugging adventure course, which was great fun. (65-ish images total)
Wednesday 13 April 2022
How very Scandinavian, a baby carriage OUTSIDE the cafe with a sleeping baby, while the parents eat inside the cafe. Yes, we do this in Iceland too. Also, the duvet cover is a classic, Finnur’s parents still have one from way back when!
By the metro entrance, on our way to Field’s mall.
At the mall, refueling at a cafe before continuing.
Esprit is my favorite store these days. Anna also found a few things. She needed clothes for her upcoming graduation-trip to Mexico!
Meanwhile, Emma and Bjarki were looking at something in the aquarium with Finnur.
Live show, almost certainly only in Danish.
Seals.
Octopus.
By a school of fish.
Bjarki getting a pedicure.
Those are some big teeth!
Tooth vs head.
No freaking out!
Underwater.
Interesting colors!
Refueling.
Finnur didn’t escape all of the shopping, he got shoes for the kids.
Anna and I stupidly renewed our shoes at the very end of the shopping day!
Anna’s old shoes were utterly caput!
One last store before heading out. The ceiling lights were amazing.
Escape at 6:30 pm! We arrived at noon, eeek!
Here come’s the train!
There is no falling on the train-tracks with these barriers!
A colleague told me these blocks of flats were “ghettos”. They are huge compared to the surrounding houses.
We spotted the course.
We were a little early, so we killed a bit of time coloring Easter eggs.
Anna’s egg.
Emma’s egg.
After we’d gotten geared up, completed the safety briefing, and how it all works, we went on the baby-line.
You have to follow the straight line through, this was harder for big people than small!
Anna done with the first course.
There was a pile of snow on the ground, it apparently came from the ice skating rink next door!
I quite liked the gear they had. These parks always have you attached via two lines, and usually you have to move them between lines by opening one at a time, but some of them can be opened by finger pressure only, not just the hard cable. This harness had one clip that opened and closed, but the other had to be threaded past these steel plates, so you were effectively always attached, and no way to cheat.
There were three levels of courses, Emma and myself stuck to the first two, while the others quickly ventured up a level above us.
How is this a good idea again?
First time I’ve ever seen a car as an obstacle!
It was pretty filthy, but not disgusting to cross.
Anna, Bjarki, and Finnur getting the advanced instructions for the highest level courses.
Fun view!
Looking at the windows of the building alongside the site, I thought there was a birthday party going on. Then I noticed the colors, and later confirmed with the staff that it was housing Ukrainian refugees.
Zipline-time!
She did really well!
Finnur up really high!
Probably the hardest obstacle for Bjarki.
Fnnur’s added height made it nearly easy for him.
Proudly done.
The last bit for Emma, Bjarki, and Finnur was climbing up this wall, and then falling down in an auto-belay that only caught you a ways down.
Emma getting ready to jump down.
Bjarki Spider-manning up the wall.
Finnur getting ready to jump.
He made it!
Official sibling photo.
How they’ve grown!
Waiting for the bus that would take us back.
Pretty trees.
Walking to dinner.
This turned out to be our least favorite meal. It started out well with a cool platter, but then the mains took forever to arrive, and didn’t taste very good. There was probably some disaster in the kitchen.
Thankfully the dessert was quite good, but the boss gave us 10% off the bill as compensation.
