I meant to blog last night, but when the time came, my ibuprofen wore off and the fever (oral: 38.2°C/100.8°F, which probably really means 38.7°C/101.7°F) and chills returned with a vengeance. So I lay down for a night of fitful sleep, where my coughing woke me up periodically, and my throat and ears were sore. This wasRead more
… not. Yup, this has been a yet another iteration of ‘Hrefna stays in bed all day’. Am I feeling better? It’s hard to say. I feel slightly more energetic, even had the energy to bring the big camera and a whole usb cable to bed and upload some pictures onto my trusty and veryRead more
Sooo… being on Day Five of my illness, and seemingly not getting any better on any front, and possibly getting worse if anything, I called the health clinic this morning and made an appointment with my General Practitioner (GP = heimilislæknir or ‘home-doctor’). Why wait until Day Five? Well, it’s been my experience, with child-patientsRead more
The luxury service regarding Bjarki continued today. Finnur’s sister showed up early this morning to take him into daycare, and at the end of the day, Finnur’s mom (just back from a weekend trip) picked him up, stopped by our place to pick up some clothing supplies and drop of some food supplies, and thenRead more
I’m blogging so that I can stop composing a blog post in my head, and just go to bed. Yes, that’s supposed to sort of rhyme. The current family status is that I’m pretty darn sick (flu-virus probably), Bjarki is sleeping soundly in his bed, and Anna and Finnur are in California. Whhhhaaaaat? CALIFORNIA?!?! Yes,Read more
We were invited to an Easter-feast in Reykjavik on Sunday, so we drove back home on the Saturday after a most splendid stay. We can’t wait to get back! 🙂
We had a small Easter-egg hunt in the morning. We'd gotten the kids some small chocolate eggs, and they mostly devoured them that morning. Here is Þóra in the foreground helping the others find their eggs.
Good Friday (or Föstudagurinn langi, or Long Friday in Icelandic) was spent mostly ‘at home’. First up was bingo, then there was candy floss, somewhere in there was a trip to the swimming pool (this is written in June!), and then the kids played. All in all, it was a very Good Friday! 🙂
First up, there was bingo with real prizes!!
Þóra and Anna by our car, as we are about to go visit a couple of farms.
We arrived in/by Akureyri (they live 10 minutes south of Akureyri) with no plans at all. After ‘putting our heads into water’ (Icelandic saying for ‘thinking about it’) we came up with the brilliant plan of visiting a couple of farms 4 minutes away northwards that belong to relatives of Kata. The reason: it’s the season for ‘baby’ animals!
Iceland has a state church, the “Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland” (aka Þjóðkirkjan or ‘The National Church’). Yes, you read that right, Iceland does not have a separation of church and state. Although this irks me somewhat, one happy result is that Easter is a big national holiday, with Thursday, long Friday AND the Monday after Easter all off from work.
Since I finished teaching on Tuesday 19 April (yay!) we decided to skip town the day after and visit our good friends Kata and Jói in/by Akureyri up north. We last visited them some two years ago (how can it be so long?!?!) so a visit was very overdue. We set out around 2pm, and it was relatively smooth sailing all the way to Akureyri where we arrived around 7pm. The kids stayed awake the entire time, and did pretty well, even though all we had for entertainment was the car-radio which turns out to get very few stations out in the middle of nowhere…
In Borgarnes where we stretched our legs and got a few chocolate easter eggs for the kiddos.
The weather this latter part of April has been rather, erm, uncertain. It’s like the clouds coming ‘ashore’ have a major identity crisis and don’t know if they should be snowing, or raining, or just withholding it?! They also seem to wonder, almost out loud, whether they should invite some gusty wind along or not?Read more