Dagbók Hrefnu og Finns

Granddad Visits

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[Wednesday 14 – 17 December 2016, posted online on 14 February 2017. Just twooo monthsssieessss laaate.]

Granddad Gunnar came over to Iceland while I was in Canada. He was scheduled to depart the day after I arrived, so we just caught sight of him on his last evening in the country. Other than that, Christmas kept creeping closer, with a to-do list a mile-long… (7 images total)

Wednesday 14 December 2016

Emma painting while Granddad Gunnar looks on.

December Worktrip to Canada

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[Saturday 07 – 14 December 2016, posted online on 13 February 2017. Rinse, repeat.]

My work sent me back to Canada, this time during a cold spell in the weather. The last time I was there was in balmy September. (21 images total)

Wednesday 07 December 2016

About to land in Edmonton, Canada. There is a direct flight there, where you depart at 5 pm Iceland time, and arrive at 6 pm Edmonton time. It’s very convenient.

December Outings and Bjarki’s Guitar Recital

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[Saturday 03 – 06 December 2016, posted online on 13 February 2017. Slow and steady. I’m told it works.]

December showed up, from nowhere it appeared! The weather was too warm by 5 degrees, and no snow was to be seen for miles. (5 images and 1 video total)

Saturday 3 December 2016

I’ve begun going downtown to my favorite cafe to work on my photos and blog on Saturdays. Often time I also walk around to play a bit of Ingress, and on one such walkabout I stumbled upon the December-only ice-rink in downtown Reykjavik. Pretty!!

Anna’s, Ylfa’s and Iðunn’s Birthday Party

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[Sunday 4 December 2016, posted online on 11 February 2017. I’d like to file a complaint with Time!]

We celebrated Anna’s 13th birthday on “my” side of the family jointly with my brother Nökkvi’s two girls, Ylfa and Iðunn. We also did this last year (2015), the year before that (2014), there was a double birthday in 2013.

The whole thing went pretty well, and it’s hard to believe our “little girl” is rapidly approaching adulthood! (20 images total)

Anna is now a certified teenager!

Ex-Californians’ Thanksgiving 2016

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[Saturday 26 November 2016, posted online on 25 January 2017. Get hungry just thinking about it!]

A subsection of the Icelanders that we got to know in California, and moved back home to Iceland, have met annually for thanksgiving for a few years now.

Soffía gracefully offered up her home for the festivities this year, and all the guests brought something for the communal table.

We overate, and everybody had a wonderful time! (28 images total)

Anna, and Elsa with two of her kids in one corner of the living room.

November Snapshots

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[Photos from 05 – 25 November 2016, posted online on 25 January 2017. Very wet day in downtown Reykjavik.]

Finnur took off for a worktrip to California on 31 October, and returned home on 13 November. Meanwhile I tried to keep all the balls in the air by myself, which mostly means long days, and not a lot of battery-charging time.

A few days after Finnur arrived, all the screws and the plate from my ankle breakage were removed. Recovery kept me out of work for almost a week, but it was a lot less traumatic than the original injury.

Thus, only a few photos got taken over most of November, here are some of them. (28 images total)

Saturday 5 November 2016

Anna has taken to randomly baking things on the weekends. Much happiness ensures!

Autumn School Break Trip to England

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[Photos from 26-31 October 2016, posted online 10 January 2017. Upcoming worktrip is going to kill these updates for a while.]

For this year’s autumn school break (no school Thursday and Friday), we decided to hop on over to England to visit Gunnar granddad, and his gang, as it had been a while.

To kill two birds with one stone, Finnur left the weekend before so he could get a full work-week at Google in London (while staying at dad’s), and we then joined Finnur there late on Wednesday. We hung out for a few days, and then all of us flew back on the Sunday.

(Due to crazy scheduling issues, Finnur slept at home for one night, and then left for California the next day, for two weeks. Eek!) (39 images total)

Wednesday 26 October 2016

Excitement as the kids and I prepare to board the plane to Gatwick.

October Snapshots

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[Photos from 03-25 October 2016, posted online 10 January 2017. Emma got an ear infection yesterday. Feeling better now.]

October has a tendency to pass in snapshots. Not a whole lot of stuff happens that warrants the “big camera”, so this is mostly just phone stuff of “life as usual”. (26 images total)

Monday 03 October 2016

We begin with Emma on her daycare playground. This fall, she took a liking to biking there after we got home, and hanging out for a bit.

Autumn Colors at Laugarvatn

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[Photos from 01-02 October 2016, posted online 8 January 2017. Whoa, a new month!]

We spent a weekend at the Laugarvatn summer house with Ragnar and Agnes, and their four kids in calm weather.

The kiddos mostly hung out inside some computer world or another, but the mothers did manage to wrangle them outside for a short walk, while the men were out procuring food, as the weather was lovely.

Once we arrived in town on the Sunday, we attended Fannar’s 6th birthday, but only a couple of photos got taken… (36 images total)

Saturday 01 October 2016

Siblings, not terribly happy over being made to go outside.

Northern Lights

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[Photos from 28 September 2016, posted shortly after midnight. UPDATED ON 8 JANUARY 2017 (2 photos added).]

So, the northern lights have been going strong this past week, and tonight was forecasted to have a good show. When something showed up, Anna and I hiked up to the Buddha stupa up on the hill, and hung out there for a while.

Of course, the biggest show came on practically on top of us as we were walking there (zero chance of photographing it) but it was probably the pretties that I’ve seen in the city, lights falling down on top of us.

A couple of arches went by as we hung up on the hill, and a few photos were taken. Here’s an animated gif of one of the passes, not processed otherwise.

Animiated gif of Anna sitting on the Buddha stupa, watching the light-show.