US Visitors – Out in the Countryside
[Written 26 July 2014. At least it’s still July!!]
After spending the work-week in the city with our US visitors, we headed out to the trusty old summer house by Laugarvatn on the Friday. We planned to stay there for four or five nights.
It took us half of forever to get going, packing everything up, and fitting it in the cars. Cleverly, we’d planned for the US-ers to leave first, which they did, so they could stop at Thingvellir (which is half way there) to sight-see a bit.
The rest of us got a slightly later start because there’s always something that needs doing at the last minute, and then we had to make a library run, aaaand pick Finnur up from work. Oh, and return back home for stuff I forgot to pack.
Anyway, we finally caught up with the gang around 5 pm as they were about to walk to a waterfall in the gusty cold wind. We told them they were out of time, and that we’d stop by on the way back when there would surely be less wind. They admitted we had a point, so onwards to Laugarvatn we all went, settled in, and made dinner.
We were super lucky in that the second house (again, Finnur’s parents’ house) was available, so Sarah’s parents could stay there and get a break from the loud and rowdy kids (and adults!). (36 images, 2 videos total.)
Friday 4 July 2014 – Finnur Flies the Quad-copter
Around midnight on the Friday, the weather was doing its ‘calm before the storm’ routine, so Finnur used the opportunity to test drive his 40th birthday present: A quad-copter with a video camera, aka drone.
