The annual ‘Culture Night‘ was celebrated today in Reykjavik. It’s now the third ‘party’ of the summer, after Independance Day and Gay Pride. The ‘Culture Night’ involves closing off downtown from cars for an entire day (also because there is a marathon held that same day, plus lots of shorter races) and then there areRead more
Soooo… summer vacation is officially over so I guess it’s time to start blogging again? 🙂 Not much to report except that we went to England at the end of July for 10 days, then to a summer house (last weekend in July), after which I resumed working. Finnur was uber-dad with two kids allRead more
July was a busy month. Not only did we BUY A HOUSE (!!!) but we also went on a 10 day vacation to England. The vacation was planned long before we knew we would be buying a house, so we had to plan around it a bit. As it happened we didn’t have to planRead more
Warning: This is a massively long post, but it has lots of pictures! 🙂 When we made our original offer on our new house, we’d asked for a rather quick hand-over date, some three weeks into the future. We did this in part because we wanted to move during our summer holiday, and in partRead more
As of today, we are the proud owners of a house! Well, to be precise it’s not a whole house, but one half of a duplex. It’s 188.3 square meters (2027 square feet) and sports five ‘bedrooms’, four on the second floor, and one front room on the first floor (it’s technically the ‘storage room’).Read more
In true Icelandic fashion, Finnur and I are taking July off for vacation this year. Incidentally, our good friends, Adda and Halli, are also taking July off, so we decided to join forces and go on a short vacation together. As any parent should know, bringing playmates for the kids along for a vacation means that you have a much greater chance of actually going on vacation. Also, as we may have mentioned before, we are incredibly fortunate in that we have family-access to quite a few ‘summer-houses’ within easy driving distance of the capital area. For this particular trip we decided to start by going to Ólafsvík for a couple of nights, and then to Hvalfjörður for a few more nights.
Our adorable flower-picking-fairies right before taking off for Ólafsvík on Saturday 2 July 2011. This picture does not capture the ever-present chaos and craziness raging before embarking on any such trip.
Today it has been four years since Bjarki and Reynir were yanked into this world. It doesn’t quite feel like it was yesterday, but it’s a little surprising to think that it was four whole years ago! To mark the day, Bjarki got to open a present this morning. We then brought ice-cream to daycare,Read more
Nicolas and Precilla visited us from California this week and asked if I (Finnur) wanted to join them for a dive in Silfra (in Þingvellir). This was the perfect opportunity for me to do the dry suit course I’d been meaning to take, and Oli, who had also been toying with the idea of divingRead more
Sunday was the first really really really nice day weather-wise for weeks. We did manage to go biking after all, and it was gorgeous out there. To celebrate the weather, we broke out Anna’s Stomp Rocket, and it was an instant hit with the kids. 🙂 Later that afternoon we headed to a birthday bashRead more
A bike-trip with mom was planned for this glorious-weather morning, but when I called mom up to see if she was still up for it, she informed me that Bjarni Sr., my stepdad, had died this morning from complications of a long term illness. This wasn’t entirely shocking, since he’d been sick for a longRead more