Florida Day #10: Dresses & My 42nd Birthday
[Photos taken on 01 March 2019, posted online 17 August 2019. After a few days of fall-preview-weather we’re back to the pretty good stuff. I predict wood staining this weekend!]
Our very last full day in Florida was spent recovering after the Disney World trip the day before, taking the teenagers to the mall, and having a nice birthday celebration (mine!). (25-ish images total)
Friday 01 March 2019
Florida Day #9: Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom
[Photos from 28 February 2019, posted online 13 August 2019, maybe. Chilly wind’s been blowing lately. Is it time for fall already?]
We finally made it to a Disney theme-park, some 10 years after first sort-of planning to do so, but failing due to exhaustion after visiting three parks in San Diego.
This time we were super-duper lucky because my sister-in-law kindly gave us free passes as she worked for Disney at the time, so we didn’t have to pay quite the extortion fee we otherwise would have.
All in all it was as good day, but even though late-February is ‘off-season’, the park felt crowded, and we didn’t really start having a fun time until our ‘fast-passes‘ kicked in, and we weren’t stuck in lines so much. That said, we lucked out in stumbling upon all three parades they have every day, without really planning to. They were the highlight, for sure. (80-ish photos total)
Thursday 28 February 2019
Florida Day #8: Cat Cafe
[Photos from 27 February 2019, posted online 08 August 2019. Tonight Anna and I are going to see Ed Sheeran play here in Iceland!]
After all the excitement of the previous days, and an upcoming visit to Disney World the next day, this day was designated ‘relaxation day’.
We hung out at ‘home’ for the majority of the day, but towards the end I took the older girls to a cat-cafe nearby, where they played with cats while I did a bit of blogging. (11 photos total)
Wednesday 27 February 2019
Florida Days #6-7: Fun Spot & Universal Studios
[Photos from 25-26 February 2019, posted online 07 08 August 2019. Tomorrow Today we started work after four weeks of summer vacation. I’m I was not ready!]
We’d decided that one day would be enough for our kiddos at Universal Studios (we were advised against taking Emma there, is it would go over her head), but our fellow travelers decided they’d go there for two days.
On the first Universal day, we therefore opted to visit a local amusement park instead called Fun Spot. There were VERY few people there, so we went on tons of rides as there were no lines whatsoever.
On the second Universal day, Finnur took our big kids there, while I took Emma to the second Fun Spot park, a hop and a skip away from Universal Studios. That Fun Spot park was even emptier than the previous one (!!!), so Emma and I again went on tons of rides! The others got to see all the cool Universal stuff though, so in the end I think it was about equal. 🙂 (60-ish images total)
Monday 25 February 2019
Florida Days #4-5: Go-Kart & Tree-Climbing
[Photos from 23-24 February 2019, posted online 06 August 2019. The weather keeps being amazing.]
We made a conscious decision to not go to any of the big parks over the weekend, instead going to smaller venues to avoid people-traffic. (I really dislike crowds, and try avoid them as much as I can!)
Instead we visited a small go-kart place that also had an alligator pit, and an arcade, and somehow managed to spend most of the day there.
The day after that we had an ‘early’ rise and went to a tree-climbing adventure park. We had a late lunch at Denny’s, and then the older females went and got manicures and pedicures! (40-ish photos total)
Saturday 23 February 2019
Florida Days #2-3: Aquatica & Outlet Shopping
[Photos taken on 21-22 February 2019, posted online 06 August 2019. Our summer vacation will be over soon, sigh.]
The weather forecast was good (surprise!) so we decided to spend the day at a water park. We apparently picked a good day since according to one of the guards, there were about 5000 people in the park that day, but they can go up to 18000 or so, and then it’s quite full.
The day after that was designated “shopping day”. This meant Finnur got to entertain the younger ones, while the rest of us walked around an outlet mall for an entire day. Eeeek! (20 images total)
Thursday 21 February 2019
Florida Days #0-1: Travel & Acclimatizing
[Photos taken on 19 – 20 February 2019, posted online 05 August 2019. We’ve spent the long weekend in Finnur’s parents’ summer house. The weather is amazing. Yay, climate change!]
Sometime last year, our friends Adda and Halli approached us with the idea to go visit Orlando, Florida, with them before the kids got ‘too old’. Since we’d managed to not visit Disneyland while we lived in California, we said yes. We decided to go during the two-day long school February winter-break, as the weather would be most tolerable.
As it happened, our flight to Florida got changed TWICE by Icelandair, so we ended up going out a day earlier than planned. (35-ish images total.)
Tuesday 19 February 2019
Room Redecorating & Solo Parenting in December 2018
[Photos taken on 01 – 15 December 2018, posted online on 02 June 2019. We’ve had two weeks straight of gorgeous weather, and it’s not even been that cold. The north of the country is still freezing though. Quite unusual.]
Enter December, the month whose only saving grace is that the sun begins being visible for slightly longer each day towards its end, oh, and fireworks!
Anna kept pushing for a new bed, so we used the opportunity while Finnur briefly touched down between work-trips to perform the big bed-switch-a-roo between Anna’s and Emma’s rooms.
Myself and Anna found ourselves repeatedly resting at a cafe while Bjarki did gymnastics, Finnur departed for a 2-week-long stint in California, yule-lights were bought and installed on multiple fronts, food of varying quality got eaten, I went to see a Baggalútur-show, we all went to see a movie, Bjarki had his yule-tide recital, work was busy, and my brother Bjarni competed in body-building! (50-ish images total)
Saturday 01 December 2018
November 2018 – The End
[Photos taken 19 – 30 November 2018, posted online 18 May 2019. Trees are getting noticeably green. Yay for spring! ]
Finnur was gone on a weeklong trip to the UK to work in London + go see a football game in Liverpoool, so I was in charge of dinner, which is usually Finnur’s domain. Enter going out to dinner a lot!
Also, the following occurred in the span of 12 days: Bjarki visited my workplace, bikes tires got switched to studded, bedroom rearrangement plans were made, a new bed was scouted, I attended a funeral, Emma showed off gymnastics skills, there was ice skating, Finnur attended a football game and got a prized selfie, yule-tide outside-lights were scouted,
Finnur arrived home, we went out to dinner (a lot), work happened, and I shot skeets for the first time (3 out of 5 hits!) as well as participated in a murder-mystery role-playing game with my coworkers. Yup, two things struck off the bucket list in one day!
I’ve come to the conclusion that the entirety of November 2018 was nuts! (50-ish images)
Monday 19 November 2018
Sewing Club Edinburgh Trip
[Photos from 27-30 September 2018, posted online 14 April 2019. Finnur hopped to Toronto and back this past week!]
A “sewing club” I belong to (which does no sewing, except of the social kind) went on its second weekend trip abroad this past autumn, this time to Edinburgh. (Gasp, I just realized I never posted any photos from our trip to Prague!!)
We rented a really nice apartment on airbnb, that had individual bathrooms per bedroom (a must for future excursions!) and we all had a grand time! (90-ish images total)
Thursday 27 September 2018
