This summer has been very dry, much like the summer last year. But this weekend has been wet wet wet. And I routinely need to remind myself that one of the things I didn’t enjoy so much about CA was the eternal non-rain during the summer months. Yes, indeed, I like rain! Or at leastRead more
I suffered from photo-fatigue and only took a handful to document that we were really there!Read more
These are photos from August 6th 2010. We didn’t take a lot of photos during the unloading of the container because we were BUSY!! But we send out deepest thanks to our awesome helpers! Thank you! 🙂 Takk takk! 🙂
Waiting for the container. We weren't sure how quickly they could get the container to us (we'd paid up at 3:50 pm, they don't take any new assignments after 4pm) so we asked people to arrive shortly after four.
It is now Tuesday, and we’ve taken the evening off from opening boxes and sorting things. By this I mean that Finnur fell asleep with Bjarki at 7 pm, and I stayed up to mind Anna who didn’t succumb to sleep until somewhere between 9 and 10pm. It’s now 10:30 pm, and it’s getting darkRead more
My dad has been visiting from England with my brother Anthony, and his girlfriend, Shirley. They leave tomorrow so we met up to have dinner at Mjöll’s and Siggi’s (Mjöll is dad’s aunt). Unfortunately we left the big camera at home, so all we had was the cell phone. Oh well, that’s better than nothing!Read more
Here are some pictures of my sparse but very spacious office. I was introduced to one of the higher-up admins the other day, and she went on to say that the office wasn’t 100% mine yet, but my superior says otherwise. So I’ll have to wait and see, but in the meantime, all this glorious space is miiiiine!
The view from the door.
The first weekend of August is the ‘Commercial employees weekend’, aka ‘Verslunarmannahelgin’. I think I’m correct in claiming that it’s the only non-religious holiday with a guaranteed public holiday on a Monday. As a result it’s the biggest travel-weekend in Iceland, with lots and lots of festivals planned all over the country.
We’ve never been much for festivals (we’re quiet folks!), so this weekend we headed for the summerhouse that Finnur and his siblings own (built by their grandfather). The siblings split the house on a week-by-week basis. Due to some week-swapping this past weekend was our first at the house after arriving in Iceland. As it happens, Finnur’s parents have a summerhouse very close by (3 minutes walking?) where they spent the weekend.
We arrived on Friday, had dinner with Finnur’s parents, and slept in their house to take advantage of some early morning baby-sitting (priceless!). On Saturday we mostly hung out at their house, but then moved to the other house to welcome some fine guests (The Usual Suspects). On Sunday we visited a nearby swimming pool, picked berries (they’re early this year – hello Climate Change), and then waved goodbye to our guests.
We on the other hand spent one more night in the summerhouse, and were overjoyed when Bjarki actually slept until 9am, and not 5:45am like the night before (mental note: always always always cover the ‘black-out-curtains’ with an extra blanket to cover the gaps!). We drove back around 2pm on Monday, and arrived back early enough for Finnur to start his CA work (he has Monday meetings at 6pm and 8pm), while I took the kids to Arnar’s and Magnea’s where Bjarki unceremoniously and repeatedly attempted to whack their little Lóa as she tried to reclaim her toys from his clutches. We’ll have to work on him to use his words more…
And that was the end of that weekend. Here are a few pictures.
Bjarki and Anna 'helping' their grand-dad Þórarinn. Bjarki is absolutely enthralled with all power tools these days.
Today was my first day at work at the University of Iceland. It was a decidedly low-key day, which wasn’t surprising since most everybody was returning to work after a summer holiday which ended on a three-day weekend. I showed up around 10am and after a bit of wandering I ended up in the adminRead more
Today was Finnur’s 36th birthday! Whooo! Sadly he didn’t get to do very many fun things since he had to spend the day working. We did have a nice dinner though, and in the evening his parents and two siblings plus other halves came to the new place for a short visit. (The photos hereRead more
This week has zoomed past shockingly fast, as ‘the real life’ has started to emerge. Bjarki started his new daycare on Monday, but only for a couple of hours for the first couple of days, then for slightly longer periods of time every day. Finnur in the meantime started working again, after a month-long summerRead more