{"id":14703,"date":"2015-09-11T18:15:44","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T18:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=14703"},"modified":"2016-01-29T14:29:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T14:29:42","slug":"tour-de-marel-fundraising-and-family-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/tour-de-marel-fundraising-and-family-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour de Marel Fundraising and Family Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Photos from 11 September 2015, began online posting process on 22 November 2015. \u00a0Harhardeehar!<\/em>]<\/p>\n

At some point in the not too distant past, Marel<\/a> began hosting a fundraising\/family day in the fall. \u00a0This effort is called Tour de Marel<\/a>, and the current theme is raising money for an SOS children’s village<\/a> on the Ivory Coast. \u00a0The 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.<\/p>\n

Still, the fundraising happened, and went pretty well. \u00a0For no real discernible reason, except that it sounds cool, it was again decided to “collect km” to travel to the village in question. \u00a0The km could be collected by either running or biking a mapped circuit. \u00a0I 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.<\/p>\n

The route took me into the back-country a bit, and it was beautiful. \u00a0Later in the day, the whole family showed up to do fun stuff. (16 images total)<\/p>\n

\"Hrefna<\/a>

Hrefna (me!) biking a 17 km circle for Tour de Marel.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

\"Nice<\/a>

Nice view!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Met<\/a>

Met some coworkers at some point<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Nice<\/a>

Nice day!<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Later<\/a>

Later in the afternoon, Finnur brought the kids.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Emma<\/a>

Emma on the bouncy castle.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Anna<\/a>

Anna bumped into some friends from school.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Bjarki<\/a>

Bjarki waiting his turn.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Working<\/a>

Working his way upwards.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Shooting<\/a>

Shooting some arrows.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Waiting<\/a>

Waiting for waterballs.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Anna<\/a>

Anna waterballing.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Last<\/a>

Last year they had ponies, this year they had all-terrain vehicles.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Bosses<\/a>

Bosses being silly.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Bjarki<\/a>

Bjarki doing his waterballing.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Time<\/a>

Time to go!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Photos from 11 September 2015, began online posting process on 22 November 2015. \u00a0Harhardeehar!<\/em>]<\/p>\n

At some point in the not too distant past, Marel<\/a> began hosting a fundraising\/family day in the fall. \u00a0This effort is called Tour de Marel<\/a>, and the current theme is raising money for an SOS children’s village<\/a> on the Ivory Coast. \u00a0The 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.<\/p>\n

Still, the fundraising happened, and went pretty well. \u00a0For no real discernible reason, except that it sounds cool, it was again decided to “collect km” to travel to the village in question. \u00a0The km could be collected by either running or biking a mapped circuit. \u00a0I 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.<\/p>\n

The route took me into the back-country a bit, and it was beautiful. \u00a0Later in the day, the whole family showed up to do fun stuff. (16 images total)<\/p>\n

\"Hrefna<\/a><\/p>\n

Hrefna (me!) biking a 17 km circle for Tour de Marel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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