I was overly optimistic this morning and asked Finnur to give Bjarki some yogurt for breakfast. The yogurt most emphatically disagreed with such treatment, and ran for the exit at the earliest opportunity. Thus began Non-Day Number Two, i.e. Finnur and Hrefna at home-base for yet another day with a sick Bjarki. And yes, itRead more
Bjarki didn’t eat very much yesterday, and today we found out why: he came down with a stomach bug. Yup, the little guy couldn’t keep anything down except Coke Cola until around 7pm today (not even the four pieces of Cheerios we gave him around 5pm), so Finnur and I just stayed at home-base, takingRead more
Anna’s grandparents asked yesterday if they could take her to the summer house we were at last weekend to stay over the coming long weekend. We decided to leave it up to Anna herself, and before they all took off this afternoon, she’d changed her mind four times (or “changed her idea” as she putRead more
We had a mostly quiet day today and hung out at home for most of the day. Then around 5pm we headed to Gudrun and Snorri’s place to have dinner and reminiscence about all the good times we had in California. Since the weather is still ridiculously good, the kids splashed around in a kiddieRead more
Finnur is 35 years old today! To celebrate we invited our respective immediate families for a small cocktail-party. The party was “California-style”, i.e. no fancy clothes, which I think we might turn into a tradition… The center-pieces of the feast were sushi-rolls which Finnur, Einar and Anna assembled today. The rest of the food preparationRead more
Today was an “aunt and cousins”-day. We started out at Ríkey’s place (her grandfather and my grandmother were siblings, I think that makes us cousins) where we ate lots of yummy stuff from the bakery. Also there were her sister, Dagrún, and later on their mother, Eyrún, joined in the fun. Ríkey and Gestur hadRead more
Today we met up with Gudrun and her children (plus one extra) and went swimming around lunch time. Then we headed to Árbæjarsafn, which is a museum located in the city showing how people lived in years past. Many old houses have been moved there instead of being demolished. After walking around the museum, weRead more
If you happen to stop in Iceland for a few days, chances are that you’ll take “Golden Circle Tour“. This takes you to the Golden Waterfall (Gullfoss), Geysir-area (Haukadalur) and Thingvellir (Þingvellir) in one day. As it happened, our summer house was close to the first two, and we passed by number three on theRead more
Today we played tourists and visited the Golden Waterfall (Gullfoss) pictured above. We also visited the Geyser area, and saw Strokkur erupt a few times. Unfortunately it was raining pretty heavily at the Geyser area when we got out of the car so everybody turned back after a couple of eruptions. Hrefna stayed behind toRead more
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