Dagbók Hrefnu og Finns

Hrefna in Edmonton, Canada

2015-05-09Uncategorized Standard

[Departed on 9 and returned on 17 May 2015. Blogged on 03 June 2015.]

I traveled to the Edmonton area (specifically Spruce Grove) for a week-long work-trip this past May. Since the area is a flatland, and could be pretty much Anywhere North America, we didn’t go any specific tourist trips – except to the local mall, which happens to be the largest shopping mall in North America!

Some photos from the week that sped by (40 images total)

Good old Keilir, we meet again! Turns out Keilir has a wifi, which I neglected to buy into until very late. It did make up for the fact that Icelandair has barely updated the contents of their entertainment system in a very long time.

A New Nephew!

2015-05-07Uncategorized Standard

[Photos and post from 07 May 2015. Because he’s worth it! 🙂]

I went and saw my newest nephew for the first time tonight! He’s the third child of my oldest brother, Nökkvi, and his wife, Jóhanna. He just turned 11 days old, and he was wide awake and super alert pretty much the whole time I was there. Such a cutie!!

Here are a six pics, but THERE ARE MORE PHOTOS HERE.

Well, hello there!

Easter Day 2015

2015-04-05Uncategorized Standard

[Easter Sunday was on 05 April this year. This is being posted on 30 April 2015. Praise dark chocolate! ]

We had yet another classic Easter Sunday. The kids got up at their usual 7 am time, and dragged us a along downstairs for breakfast. After they’d put on some clothes, all the big people searched for their big chocolate egg. Most of the eggs got demolished and partially eaten. Around lunchtime we went over to Finnur’s parents’ place, where we met most of Finnur’s siblings and their families, and ate excellent easter lamb.

Post-lunch, and egg-hunting we played 12 rounds of social whist and Finnur and I came in first and second! It was Finnur’s first time winning the family tournament (I’ve never won, boohoo) and he got a cup to take home!

Afterwards, we had ice-cream for late dessert, before heading home and shooing the kids to bed. Good times! (56 images total!)

The kiddos with their chocolate easter eggs. The big kids got #5, while Emma had to make do with a smaller #2.

No Frost!

2015-04-04Uncategorized Standard

[Photo from 04 April 2015, posted online 30 April 2015. Still April!] This photos is to document that on 04 April 2015, the sandbox outside our house was NOT FROZEN, and there was no snow around it. Could this be spring??!Read more

Confirmation Party

2015-04-02Uncategorized Standard

[Event happened on Thursday 02 April 2015, but this post was created on April 26 2015.] We’ve now reached the stage where the oldest kids of our friends are getting ‘confirmed‘ (either in church or not). Hard to believe it’ll be our turn in two years!! I was asked to come and take photos, which IRead more

Fun With Grandparents

2015-04-01Uncategorized Standard

[Photos from Wednesday 01 April, put online 26 April 2015. Almost speedy!] The big kids were on a school vacation the week before Easter Day, while the rest of us weren’t. Therefore Bjarki ended up at his grandparent’s place for a couple of days (I stayed home on the Monday to recuperate after the longRead more

Bjarki’s New Mittens

2015-03-31Uncategorized Standard

[Happened 31 March 2015, put online 26 April 2015. It’s been cold!] Finnur’s big sister came for a mini-visit the other day with a surprise gift for Bjarki: New mittens! Yay! Thank you Eyrún! 🙂Read more

Back From Australia!

2015-03-30Uncategorized Standard

[Written 30 March 2015.] Yesterday I returned from my first trip to Australia! I was there for a little over two weeks on a work trip for Marel, while Finnur held down the home fort. I had megalomaniacal visions of updating this website as time went by, but when push came to shove I wasRead more

Tourists in Sydney and the Trip Back

2015-03-28Uncategorized Standard

[Happened Saturday to Sunday 28-29 March 2015. Blogged on 21 April 2015. Less then a month later, yay!]

We spent our last day in Australia playing tourists in Sydney. We had to leave for the airport around 4 pm, so we didn’t have a whole lot of time. We therefore ended up renting bikes and biking around for a few hours. It was great!

Phooootoooos! (67 images total!)

We began our touring by walking to Darling Harbour again. We passed by this enclosed Chinese garden, which charged admission for entry, so we didn’t go inside. It looked pretty neat though.

Goodbye Nowra, Nice Seeing You Blowhole in Kiama, Hello Sydney!

2015-03-27Uncategorized Standard

[Photos from Friday 27 March 2015, blogged on 13 April 2015. I suck at keeping up.]

This was our last day in Nowra, Australia. We checked out from our hotel beforeg 8 am, and headed for breakfast. Afterwards, we stopped by ‘Australia’s best coffee shop‘ on our way out of town. It only serves coffee, no real food, so we’d never bothered to stop by before, although we’d seen a constant stream of people waiting outside for their fix. The coffee was quite excellent (I am now a mocha lover. Yeah, yeah!)

We finished up at the factory, and set out north to Sydney around noon. We drove up by the beach until we hit Kiama, where we visited a natural ocean-side blowhole, and had lunch. We reached our hotel in Sydney around 5pm, after spending about half an hour just trying to navigate to the front of the hotel through a maze of one-way streets. Good times!

After a short unwinding period, we headed out to our last dinner in Australia, this time by Darling Harbour, which was within walking distance from our hotel. The food was very nice, and the surroundings bizarrely lively (it’s a harbour area! it’s evening! there’s a ton of people here!). We walked around afterwards for a bit, before collapsing into bed.

Photos! (63 images total!)

Goodbye hotel hallway that's been my 'home' for two weeks!

Goodbye hotel second floor hallway that’s been my ‘home’ for two weeks!