Engjabær-Descendants Meet Up
[Photos from 13 August 2016, posted online 07 October 2016. This post took two coffee house visits!]
Earlier this year, after a funeral of a member of my mother’s extended family, the idea was floated to have the descendants of my maternal-great-grandparents meet up outside of the funeral context for a change.
My great-grandparents, who lived in Engjabær, which was located where the farm animal/family park in Reykjavik is now, had 12 children (sort of standard for the time), all of which made it to adulthood, but only five of which had children of their own.
One cousin offered up a fishing hut/camping site that he runs at Minnivallalækur. Since the five of us still don’t have the equipment we need to camp overnight, we instead drove there on Saturday morning, spent the day (fake-camped our small tent), and then drove back in the late evening.
A good time was had by all! Also, the whole photoset can be seen here. (32 images below)
Group photo of (most of) the attendees. Click on the image to see a larger version.
