I’m very sorry dear camera, you must feel ever so neglected! Yes, yes, I haven’t picked you up and turned you on for three weeks now. But I promise to give you a little more attention now that the memory of the December photo-glut is fading. When exactly did I realize that I was neglectingRead more
Are you male? Do you want to read musings about women’s periods? No? I didn’t think so. So, just look away. Go find some pictures on The Google to oogle at instead (it’s a pun!) 🙂 If you choose to go on then don’t say I didn’t warn you. So yes, this is a littleRead more
I have come to the conclusion that not teaching on Mondays is very good for my mental health. It makes the weekend so much more enjoyable since I don’t have to worry about Monday’s lecture – and then spend between 9pm on Sunday and 3am Monday actually writing said lecture. (Which is one reason whyRead more
It’s a Saturday night, and shockingly (not) I’m lounging on the sofa, with the laptop. I’m feeling remarkably non-stressed, which is never a good sign – the universe must be brewing something! I even had the mental capacity last night to ask Finnur out on a StarCraft II date, where he sits and does all theRead more
First off: Happy 21st Birthday Pétur Breki!! Wheeee!!! 🙂 I’m blogging from my office this time, having just returned from teaching the first class of this semester. I guess this means the newest roller-coaster ride has begun! My main course this semester will be “Antennas and Wave Propagation” and I ended up choosing Kraus’ “AntennasRead more
As we have done before, we said goodbye to the old year by first joining Finnur’s family for a large dinner, and then moving to my family to shoot some fireworks, watch the Annual Retrospective Comedy Hour, before hiking up onto a tall hill to enjoy the view as the entire population of the capital area goes absolutely stark raving mad and shoots fireworks up into the sky like there is no tomorrow…
Steinunn with her brand new baby boy and Finnur, proud uncle!
We decided to leave almost all the Christmas presents behind, and open them once we’d returned from England. As soon as the kids got up (which was thankfully late, since we’d landed around midnight a few hours before) they spread out all the presents and got to work opening them. Later that day we got a visit from Logi and Tassanee, who were kind enough to include us on their whirlwind Christmas visit of Iceland this year. We were thrilled to see them, but also felt sympathetic because we know these whirlwind visits, and just how fun yet tiring they are! To top off the day, we then went to an annual dinner-party.
The kids by the presents-left-behind. They were so happy to get to open even more presents!!
Somewhat shockingly, we haven’t visited my dad in England since before Anna was born. Instead, Dad and Anthony traveled to Iceland and to California to say hi. To remedy this situation, we decided to spend Christmas in England this year. Little did we know that we’d have more snow (well, for longer anyway) than Iceland did!
21 December 2010: The day of our arrival was the first day that Heathrow was fully opened after being shut down due to a little bit of snow. Here is the snow in dad's backyard later that day.
The weekend of December 18-19 saw us celebrating Anna’s 7th birthday no less than three times! The first was a “classmates” birthday party, the second was a “Finnur’s family pre-Christmas/Anna’s birthday”-bash, and the third was a “Hrefna’s family and a few friends”-bash the day after. The fourth and final birthday celebration was held on Christmas Day itself in England with Gunnar (my dad), Shirley (his girlfriend) and Anthony (my brother). Here are pictures from all FOUR celebrations!!
18 December 2010 – Birthday Celebration #1
The girls from Anna’s class
We discovered early on this fall that Anna shares a birthday with one of the girls in her class. We therefore joined with the other family in hosting a birthday party for the girls in class at the local 'jumping castles' place. Having been to a number of these places in the USA, I must say that the big difference is that there is one (count em!), yes one, employee on site, and she spent the entire time sitting behind the counter reading a newspaper. This is a "enter at your own risk" place if there ever was one!