{"id":12472,"date":"2014-11-29T23:47:31","date_gmt":"2014-11-29T23:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=12472"},"modified":"2015-03-01T00:24:44","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T00:24:44","slug":"fff-2-5-advent-concert-of-hafnarfjordurs-brass-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/fff-2-5-advent-concert-of-hafnarfjordurs-brass-band\/","title":{"rendered":"FFF #2.5 &#8211; Advent Concert of Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur&#8217;s Brass Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[<em>This happened on a lovely Saturday afternoon on 29 NOVEMBER 2014, but was only written up just now, on 11 JANUARY 2015. \u00a0Better late than never, eh?<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/fake.football.fanclub\/\">Fake-Football-Fanclub<\/a> activity experienced a four-weekend-hiatus in November, mostly because\u00a0Dear Husband (aka Finnur) was off in California for 3 weekends, which was followed by a crazy weekend where we attended <em>two<\/em> Thanksgiving parties!! (Where I took no photos, so I wouldn&#8217;t have to blog about it. \u00a0Tsk, tsk!)<\/p>\n<p>But, a good thing is hard to kill, so I decided leave Finnur to deal with the kiddos in order to attend the annual advent concert of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ludrasveit.is\">Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Brass Band<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludrasveit.is\/\">L\u00fa\u00f0rasveit Hafnarfjar\u00f0ar<\/a>) at the photogenic\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=v%C3%AD%C3%B0ista%C3%B0akirkja&amp;espv=2&amp;biw=1455&amp;bih=726&amp;tbm=isch&amp;tbo=u&amp;source=univ&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=Yf-yVMSiF8TfPeWqgNgC&amp;ved=0CCsQsAQ\">V\u00ed\u00f0ista\u00f0a-Church<\/a>. \u00a0Our good friend, Adda, is a band member, and &#8230; uh, Adda, don&#8217;t I still owe you for the ticket?!?!?!? \u00a0(<em>Small writing hiatus while I go pay Adda for the ticket. \u00a0Oops!<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, I followed Adda and her extended family to her abode, where we ate ice cream. \u00a0Mmmm&#8230;  (10 images and 1 video total)<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_12473\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_135352.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12473\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12473\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_135352.jpg\" alt=\"The very picturesque V\u00ed\u00f0ista\u00f0a-church.\" width=\"660\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_135352.jpg 660w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_135352-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12473\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=v%C3%AD%C3%B0ista%C3%B0akirkja&amp;espv=2&amp;biw=1455&amp;bih=726&amp;tbm=isch&amp;tbo=u&amp;source=univ&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=Yf-yVMSiF8TfPeWqgNgC&amp;ved=0CCsQsAQ\">very picturesque V\u00ed\u00f0ista\u00f0a-church<\/a>.<\/p><\/div><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12474\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_135516.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12474\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12474\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_135516.jpg\" alt=\"The grand entrance.\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_135516.jpg 660w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_135516-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12474\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The grand entrance.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_12475\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/PANO_20141129_135629.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12475\" class=\"wp-image-12475\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/PANO_20141129_135629.jpg\" alt=\"The inside of the church is dramatic, to say the least.  It was so dramatic that I chose my seating based in part of which parts of the wall I would end up looking at.\" width=\"660\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/PANO_20141129_135629.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/PANO_20141129_135629-300x83.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/PANO_20141129_135629-1024x284.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12475\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The inside of the church is dramatic, to say the least. (Click on the image for a larger version. ) \u00a0It was so dramatic that I chose my seating based in part of which parts of the wall I would end up looking at!<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_12476\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_135900.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12476\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12476\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_135900.jpg\" alt=\"The program had a lot of different kinds of songs, ranging from the Godfather theme music to your standard marching song.\" width=\"440\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_135900.jpg 440w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_135900-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12476\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The program had a lot of different kinds of songs, ranging from the Godfather theme music to your standard marching song.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_12477\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_141055.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12477\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12477\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_141055.jpg\" alt=\"Players playing.\" width=\"660\" height=\"442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_141055.jpg 660w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_141055-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12477\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Players playing.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zDu4aankcl0?list=PLgK2KK11Ot0Gv00FdrNVG5YG_c90jrhjg\" width=\"660\" height=\"371\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nTwo short video clips from the concert.<\/center><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12478\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_152356.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12478\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12478\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_152356.jpg\" alt=\"I hung around after the concert ended for a bit to meet up with Adda and her gang.  Here the band is moving all the equipment out, and...\" width=\"660\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_152356.jpg 660w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_152356-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12478\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I hung around after the concert ended for a bit to meet up with Adda and her gang. Here the band is moving all the equipment out, and&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_12479\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_152657.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12479\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12479\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_152657.jpg\" alt=\"... into this truck, which is in no way a phallic symbol.\" width=\"660\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_152657.jpg 660w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_152657-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12479\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8230; into this truck, which is in no way a phallic symbol.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_12480\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_152650.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12480\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_152650.jpg\" alt=\"View to the left of the church, and...\" width=\"660\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_152650.jpg 660w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_152650-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12480\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">View to the left of the church, and&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_12481\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_152642.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12481\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12481\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_152642.jpg\" alt=\"... further left, and...\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_152642.jpg 660w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_152642-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12481\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8230; further left, and&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_12482\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_152755.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12482\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12482\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_152755.jpg\" alt=\"... even further left.  I should have just taken a panorama but I didn't!\" width=\"660\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_152755.jpg 660w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_152755-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12482\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8230; even further left. I should have just taken a panorama but I didn&#8217;t!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[<em>This happened on a lovely Saturday afternoon on 29 NOVEMBER 2014, but was only written up just now, on 11 JANUARY 2015. \u00a0Better late than never, eh?<\/em>]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/fake.football.fanclub\/\">Fake-Football-Fanclub<\/a> activity experienced a four-weekend-hiatus in November, mostly because\u00a0Dear Husband (aka Finnur) was off in California for 3 weekends, which was followed by a crazy weekend where we attended <em>two<\/em> Thanksgiving parties!! (Where I took no photos, so I wouldn&#8217;t have to blog about it. \u00a0Tsk, tsk!)<\/p>\n<p>But, a good thing is hard to kill, so I decided leave Finnur to deal with the kiddos in order to attend the annual advent concert of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ludrasveit.is\">Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur Brass Band<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ludrasveit.is\/\">L\u00fa\u00f0rasveit Hafnarfjar\u00f0ar<\/a>) at the photogenic\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=v%C3%AD%C3%B0ista%C3%B0akirkja&amp;espv=2&amp;biw=1455&amp;bih=726&amp;tbm=isch&amp;tbo=u&amp;source=univ&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=Yf-yVMSiF8TfPeWqgNgC&amp;ved=0CCsQsAQ\">V\u00ed\u00f0ista\u00f0a-Church<\/a>. \u00a0Our good friend, Adda, is a band member, and &#8230; uh, Adda, don&#8217;t I still owe you for the ticket?!?!?!? \u00a0(<em>Small writing hiatus while I go pay Adda for the ticket. \u00a0Oops!<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Afterwards, I followed Adda and her extended family to her abode, where we ate ice cream. \u00a0Mmmm&#8230;  (10 images and 1 video total)<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12473\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_135352.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12473\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12473\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_135352.jpg\" alt=\"The very picturesque V\u00ed\u00f0ista\u00f0a-church.\" width=\"660\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_135352.jpg 660w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/IMG_20141129_135352-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-12473\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=v%C3%AD%C3%B0ista%C3%B0akirkja&amp;espv=2&amp;biw=1455&amp;bih=726&amp;tbm=isch&amp;tbo=u&amp;source=univ&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=Yf-yVMSiF8TfPeWqgNgC&amp;ved=0CCsQsAQ\">very picturesque V\u00ed\u00f0ista\u00f0a-church<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/fff-2-5-advent-concert-of-hafnarfjordurs-brass-band\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[82],"class_list":["post-12472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-fff","post-container col-md-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12483,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12472\/revisions\/12483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}