A Theatrical April Week
[Photos taken on 07-14 April 2018, posted on 01 November 2018. WordPress has some new editor, which may or may not break the site.]
April trudged onward with more sunlight, and the promise of spring.
Gathering these images today, I only just realized what a crazy week this was, with sporty school, friends visiting, hanging out with family, Anna acting in a school play, and attending a big ball, us going to see Rocky Horror, Bjarki managing to score a big bump on his head, and the tree trimmers finally having time for us. (47 images total… I think!)
Saturday 07 April 2018
Pre-Easter People Gatherings Galore
[Photos taken on 28-31 March, posted on 14 October 2018. My cold is slowly getting better. Also, now I’m hooked on The Good Place, and excited for Doctor Who again. Been a long time since I’ve been emotionally invested in TV-land.]
The very end of March coincided with the beginning of the long Easter holiday, where Thursday-Monday are all public days off.
Smartly, people use those days for celebrations, and general outings, and this year was no exception. We went to a birthday party, a confirmation party, and drove to Laugarvatn to stay at Finnur’s parents’ summer house with friends. All in all a very good use of days! (38 images total)
Wednesday 28 March 2018
The view from my car window at 9 am. The geese spring arrivals had apparently begun!
My 41st Birthday!
[Photos taken on 01-02 March 2018, posted on 28 September 2018. Writing this post at the Wellington Coffeehouse in Edinburgh! ]
For my birthday Finnur organized eating out with Adda and Halli. We landed smack in the middle of the Food and Fun festival (as usual for that time of year) which meant a fixed menu, with optional roasted insects (crunchy but surprisingly edible). (8 images total)
Thursday 01 March 2018
I got flowers for my birthday!!
Emma Ósk Turns 5 Years Old
[Photos taken on 12 February, posted on 13 September 2018. Saw frost on the grass this morning.]
Emma’s fifth birthday landed on a Monday, and we decided to have a party for her at home after work ended. It was a party of the super easy kind, where we ordered pizza, and I think Anna even made the cake! (11 images total)
Emma Ósk, proudly 5 years old!
Dinners, Wicked Weather, and Pandemic
[Photos taken on 03-11 February, posted on 8 September 2018. It’s getting a bit chilly out there.]
Snapshots from the run-up to Emma’s 5th birthday. There were dinner parties galore, some board-game playing, and crazy weather. How very February! (15 images total)
Saturday 03 February 2018
Pretty clouds as we made our way to Hafnarfjörður. I vaguely recall us going to the swimming pool there.
January Trip North to Akureyri
Photos taken on 12 January 2018 – 15 January 2018, posted on 08 August 2018. Sitting at Kruðerí, gathering courage to tidy up the garage some more.]
One September day, in an apparent fit of insanity, I booked a cabin in the north of Iceland, that belongs to the employee association at my work, to stay in over a January weekend. The hope was to go skiing, and visiting our good friends Kata and Jói, whom we hadn’t seen in very long time.
As it happens, the weather over the weekend was very poor, and the ski slopes remained closed. We therefore ended up going swimming a couple of times, and generally hanging out with our friends, which was fun. Then our Sunday flight home got cancelled, so we ended up staying an extra day, but nerves got a little thin as the kids were unhappy about the no-ski situation, Bjarki’s shoes got stolen, and it was unclear when our Monday flight home would actually get off the ground.
I think next time I’ll just wait and see what the weather situation is like… (31 images total)
Friday 12 January 2018
The plane that flew us north. It’s a 30 minute flight.
People Gatherings as 2018 Began
[Photos taken on 01 January 2018 – 08 January 2018, posted on 07 August 2018. Sitting at Súfistinn, after tidying up the garage today.]
The first eight days of January 2018 included no fewer than four food-included get-together-s with friends and family galore! (22 images total)
Monday 01 January 2018
Photo of the smog still sitting on top of Reykjavik (that grayness by the bottom of the mountain) after the massive fireworks the evening before. Yes, I ventured to the only open coffee house I knew of to work on photos. I thought it was a good way to start the new year!
In-between Yule & New-Year’s
[Photos taken on 27-30 December 2017, posted on 31 July 2018. This post was actually written at home, as I’m feeling I need to wrap up 2017 before returning to work!]
The whole family was on holiday between Yule and New Year’s Eve. We hung out with family and friends, went to the movies, to a show, and tried to generally relax a bit. (12 images total)
Wednesday 27 December 2017
Among relaxing activities (for me) was hanging out at the Norðurbakkinn cafe. It’s weirdly difficult to get a symmetric photo of those buildings!
December 2017 – The Run-Up to Christmas
[Photos taken on 07 December – 23 December 2017, posted on 28 July 2018. This post is being written at Kaffi Laugalækur while looking at Mount Esja, on an overcast day. Yesterday was lovely though. Finnur’s rebuilding a wall in our backyard.]
December is always a stressful month, with all the yule-tide preparations etc, and the jetlag didn’t help matters.
Highlights were Bjarki’s guitar recital, yule-celebrations at work and school, birthday celebrations large and small, gift-buying, hosting a sewing club, the annual yule-tide photo-shoot, and ginger-bread and twisted doughnut making the night before Yule! Phew! (77 images total and 1 video).
Thursday 07 December 2017
Bjarki playing Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer at the yule-recital.
November 2017 – Snow, Sledding, and Friends
[Photos taken on 03 – 25 November 2017, posted on 15 July 2018. This post is being written at the Javastop in Longmont, Colorado, USA!]
November, November…! A wall got painted in a complicated way, we visited friends, there was snow, sledding, and coffee house trips. Bjarki competed in group-gymnastics, and we happily attended a Thanksgiving feast with other ex-Californians! (70 images total)
Friday 03 November 2017
Once Emma got a pink wall in her room, Bjarki requested a blue one in his room. I went to get some samples (many weeks prior to this), and painted three large swaths of them on his wall. He couldn’t decide between the the colors, instead deciding that he wanted all of them, in large stripes!! This Friday I finally got going, using a slim wooden stick, 1/6 of the wall length, and a pencil, to make guidelines.