Dagbók Hrefnu og Finns

August Becomes September

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[Photos taken on 20 August – 5 September 2017, posted 10 May 2018. The erratic May snow/hail/wind weather lasted for a whole week, but now we’re back to spring. Yay!]

August brought with it birthday parties, the start of the school year, lovely calm weather, walks, and football (soccer)! Life went on, and started settling down into the schedule that would extend through the winter. (55 images total)

Sunday 20 August 2017

The weather played nice, while Anna and I played Pokemon Go… Some raid or other brought us to a church in Garðabær! Then we had to wait for others to arrive.

Images From The Past

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[Photos of photos taken on 19 August 2017, posted 05 May 2018. It’s still snowing.]

The front room downstairs still needed some attention after the big bedroom-swap, so I attacked the piles of stuff on the bed. Of course I soon feel into nostalgia land, with old class and graduation photos, and some other random darling things! (16 images total)

Saturday 19 Saturday 2018

Found among the piles of paperwork were old class photos. This is my 12 year old class.

Birthday, Fancy New Work Space, and Evening Walk

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[Photos taken on 17 – 18 August 2017, posted 03 May 2018. After a spring-like April, May’s begun with three days of intermittent snow and hail.]

A few photos from Finnur’s dad’s birthday, a couple of snapshots from my newly renovated workplace, as well as from a late evening walk in gorgeous weather. (15 images total)

Thursday 17 August 2017

It was a gorgeous day for celebrating Finnur’s dad’s birthday!

A Tale of Two Projects

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[Photos taken on 31 July – 13 August 2017, posted ~~06 April 2018. Big fire next to Marel yesterday, no casualties. Pretty crazy stuff.~~ 14 April 2018. This post turned into a bigger monster than I anticipated.]

The remainder of our summer vacation was spent with Finnur and I fulfilling our stereotypical roles to the max.

He took off for the summer house by Laugarvatn to build an extension to the deck behind the house (very manly!) while I stayed at home, stained the deck, tidied, and totally overhauled three rooms which were in dire need of help (very womanly!).

To make it possible to get any work done on both ends, Finnur first took Emma with him for a few nights, then swapped kids and took Bjarki for a few nights. His parents and a rotating gang of his siblings and their significant others also came through, so it was a whole team effort.

On our side, I sort of recall Bjarki also having a sleepover or two with some friends of his during this time, so it was just me and Anna for a couple of nights, which was admittedly weird! (120 images total !!!!!!!!!)

Monday 31 July 2017

As is often the case at the end of July, the weather was gorgeous for a few days, so I finally managed to stain our deck. Complicating matters a bit was a beehive that had formed under the deck close to the house, which was scary to stain on top of, but neither myself, nor the bees were harmed during the staining.

Finnur’s 43rd Birthday!

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[Photos taken on 29 July 2017, posted 02 April 2018. Snowing outside, the last fart of winter?]

Finnur turned 43 years old some eons ago. He got presents, and was somehow convinced to walk to the top of a nearby tall hill/borderline mountain, called Úlfarsfell. (26 images total)

Finnur gets some presents and some bakery cakes.

Summer House in Úthlíð

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[Photos taken on 21 July – 28 July 2017, posted 29 March 2018. Looking like spring out there. Contemplating whether to continue blogging or not to continue blogging. Blergh!]

In Iceland, unions and employee associations are mostly just big summer house rental operations. As an employee (or union member) you pay a small amount into a joint fund, and then get rights to rent a summer house for a week for a low fee.

This summer, Adda and Halli were super lucky and got to rent a really nice new summer house in Úthlíð, a hop and a skip away from the Geysir area in Haukadalur. They kindly invited us along, and we had a lovely time, even may have returned home somewhat rested! (98 images total)

Friday 21 July 2018

This summer house in Úthlíð that was ours for a week. It belongs to the employee association of Halli’s workplace.

Day #11 in St. Brieuc – The Trip Home

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[Photos taken on Wednesday 19 July 2017, posted 05 February 2018. Lots of snow in Iceland today.]

Our trip home was pretty uneventful. We spent the evening before tidying and cleaning, reminding me again to ask for a cleaning service for our next airbnb. I’m lazy like that.

We flew from the tiny Rennes airport to the huge Schiphol airport in Amsterdam, and then onwards to Keflavik airport. (20 images total)

The top of our rental car in front of the huge house we’d spent the past 10 days in.

Day #10 in St. Brieuc – Shopping & Indoor Playground on a Rainy Day

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[Photos taken on Tuesday 18 July 2017, posted 03 February 2018. I just returned from a two-week long work-trip to Canada…]

For our last full day in France, we’d planned to revisit the tree-climbing park due to great demand. Unfortunately, the weather disagreed with our plan with a thunderstorm and rain.
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We ended up splitting up, with me and Anna going on a shopping trip downtown, while Finnur took the younger kids to an indoor playground. We then had dinner with Holla and Óli’s gang, who would be staying for a few days longer. (18 images total)

Finnur dropped Anna and myself off by the train station, as there was a massive traffic jam going into downtown. He then drove off to the outskirt of town to visit an indoor playground.

Day #9 in St. Brieuc – Mont St. Michel og St. Malo

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[Photos taken on Monday 17 July 2017, posted ~~31 December 2017~~ 4 January 2018. I can see daylight!]

Our only “proper” tourist day had us visiting the medieval-ish sort-of-island fortress of Mont St. Michel, and the old town of St. Malo. This also happened to be the warmest day of our stay, which made for an especially sweaty day. (85 images total!)

Family photo in front of Mont St. Michel, as we were leaving, and the younger two were completely out of energy!

Day #8 in St. Brieuc – Calm Day

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[Photos taken on Sunday 16 July 2017, 28 December 2017. Die Hard is on.]

After the trip to the beach the day before, we decided to lay low, and hang out in town. We went walking about downtown with our friends, checking out a playground or two. We hit a small snag in that almost everything was closed, so it took a while and a fair bit of walking to find an open bakery, but we succeeded in the end! (8 images total)

When in France, buy macaroons in bulk!