I spent so much time trying to finish blogging most of July, that August seemingly never happened. Hoping to start fixing that soon. But, in the meantime, a quick status update, going from youngest to oldest. Emma, the rascal, has potty trained herself, and now goes without diapers except at night, or on long carRead more
[Photos from 15-18 September 2015, online on 24 November 2015-ish. Joy!]
On Monday I was asked if I could travel to Denmark the day after for a four-day work trip (very Icelandic planning!). The job was a relatively simple one, daytime-hours only, so it turned into a wonderful me-time trip.
Yes, I’d just returned to work after a five week long summer vacation, but the vacation apparently only lowered my stress levels, but didn’t replenish much energy. I blame the constant chorus of mommy-mommy-mommy!
So, after I’d gotten over my initial nerves over the job at hand, I had a lovely couple of late afternoons, and evenings, where I could wander around in peace, do some shopping, eat dinners in silence, and read a book I’d been putting off reading for a month. Did I tell the world I’m an introvert already? (54 images total)
Tuesday 15 September 2015
Me walking along the terminal at Keflavik airport.
[Photos from 12-14 September 2015, posted online 23 November 2015. Procrastinating like crazy!]
More random photos from the phone. Snapshots of life being lived, I guess! (10 images total)
Saturday 12 September 2015
Bjarki playing with his cousin Ólafur.
[Photos from 11 September 2015, began online posting process on 22 November 2015. Harhardeehar!]
At some point in the not too distant past, Marel began hosting a fundraising/family day in the fall. This effort is called Tour de Marel, and the current theme is raising money for an SOS children’s village on the Ivory Coast. The timing for fundraising for a fairly regular charity was a bit unfortunate, because this was right about the time where the media was awash with (the first wave of) images of death from the massive migration over the Mediterranean Ocean.
Still, the fundraising happened, and went pretty well. For no real discernible reason, except that it sounds cool, it was again decided to “collect km” to travel to the village in question. The km could be collected by either running or biking a mapped circuit. I decided to bike, and made it almost the entire 17 km before I managed to bust my tire, meaning that was the end of my biking exploits.
The route took me into the back-country a bit, and it was beautiful. Later in the day, the whole family showed up to do fun stuff. (16 images total)
Hrefna (me!) biking a 17 km circle for Tour de Marel.
[Photos from 1 to 10 September 2015, posted online 18 November 2015. The stubbornness is strong in this one.]
Just a collection of random snapshots from the first ten days of September as life returned to “normal”. (10 images total)
Tuesday 1 September 2015
Emma and her future husband, walking together around the daycare sandbox at pickup time.
[Photos from 22 to 30 AUGUST 2015, put online on 15 November 2015. Dark days.]
I’m collecting the end of August into one post. We did a thing or two, but nothing massively massive. (25 images total)
Saturday 22 August 2015
Anna and Emma at the Subway stop leading out of the city. Our destination: the summer house in Laugarvatn with some friends.
[Photo from 19 AUGUST, posted on 9 November 2015. It’s freezing outside.] I borrowed this photo from Tina’s Facebook page. She and the big kids spent the day running, biking, and driving all over, for example stopping by the Nauthólsvík-beach. Then we had a nice dinner at home, before getting up in the middle ofRead more
[Photos from Monday & Tuesday 17 & 18 AUGUST 2015, put online 8 November 2015. The grass is still somewhat green.]
Since everybody but Anna had somewhere to be during the two days Tina and Justin had planned to tour the south coast of Iceland, she was invited to go along with them.
They drove eastwards, visiting Jökulsárlón, and then stayed at a campground close to Skaftafell. I no longer remember quite what they did on the way back, but they arrived in town for dinner.
I’ve borrowed a few photos from Tina’s facebook page, and then I’m posting some of the photos Anna took. The rest of them can be found here (Day 1) and here (Day 2).
First the photos from Tina: (100 photos total)
By Jökulsárlón on Day 1.
[Photos from 17 AUGUST 2015, posted on 4 November 2015. Laaaate!]
Earlier this summer I saw that Patti Smith was coming to Iceland to perform her album Horses in celebration of it being 40 years since its release. Since my mom is a big fan, and I’ve always been curious, I bought tickets for the two of us.
Fast forward a few months, and all of a sudden it was concert time!
I must say that she blew me away. She’s a goddess of a performer, seemingly giving off massive amounts of her energy, but also receiving energy in return from the room in spades. I can only hope that I’ll by as spry at the tender age of 68! (7 images total)
Me and mom by Harpa, the concert hall.
[Photos from 16 AUGUST 2015, posted on 3 November 2015. That’s bewildering!]
The initial plan for day two of Tina and Justin’s stay in Iceland, was for all of us to go visit the Golden Circle (Þingvellir, Gullfoss, Geysir), in two cars. Then we realized our lovely electric car would never make it there and back again on one charge, so the plan changed to me and Anna taking Tina and Justin on a road trip, while Finnur oversaw the little ones.
Off we went! (48 images total)
Stop #1: Thingvellir. This outlook post is new-ish, I’d at least never gone there, although I’d seen people standing on it from afar.