Early Thanksgiving Feast

2012-11-18Uncategorized Standard

[Written on Thanksgiving Day, 22 November 2012 – Happy Thanksgiving everybody!! :)]

Nobody can live in the USA for an extended amount of time, and not grow to appreciate, and even love, Thanksgiving! It’s like Christmas, but without the stress of presents! 🙂

For us it was always a great opportunity to hang out with friends, and we’re very fortunate in that we belong to a group of ex-CA-ans who like to get together for the occasion. (This is basically the same group of people we sometimes went camping with in CA…)

Previous ‘Thanksgivings in Iceland’ here: 2010 at Lára’s and 2011 at Soffía’s.

This year, Lára and Halldór kindly offered to host again (not everybody can accommodate such a large group easily – we can really only do it during summer time when we can have people outside), and everybody signed up to bring something for the communal feast.

Guðrún working on the dessert, Finnur in charge of the gravy, and Halldór carving one of two turkeys.

Soffía and the ever-growing Alma Hildur. Soffía is holding the book Lára and her friend published this fall, with lots of local activities for families with children.

These two are now classmates: Soffía’s Gunnar and Guðrún’s Sif!

The youngest second generation party-goer by far! All the other kids were (at most a few weeks short of) five years and older.

The kids are now so old that we hardly saw them at all during the party. They played with the fancy toys, and various computers. 🙂

Eating-time! 🙂

Lára busy stripping the other turkey of its meat.

Ágúst and Eggert by the food.

People starting to sit down after visiting the kitchen to acquire food.

Soffía and Ágúst’s Ágúst Bjarki has also gotten bigger – and looks eerily similar to his oldest brother! 🙂

Guðrún’s Sif and Elsa’s Kristborg both attend the same school now.

The first grandchild of the group has arrived! Here is Soffía’s Kjartan with his spouse, child, and little brother, Gunnar.

The dessert benefited enormously from the ‘American Days’ that one of the big supermarket chains featured the other day… The kids loooved the Cool Whip!