{"id":163,"date":"2009-07-20T23:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T23:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/finnur.net\/blog\/?p=163"},"modified":"2009-07-20T23:55:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-20T23:55:00","slug":"to-hvalfjor%c3%b0ur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/to-hvalfjor%c3%b0ur\/","title":{"rendered":"To Hvalfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finnur can&#8217;t take more than 30 days of consecutive calender days off for vacation (even though he&#8217;s got many more vacation days saved up) so he needs to work for three days before formally going on vacation.  This Monday was day 1 of working &#8220;from home&#8221;, so to stay out of his hair, I took the kids to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seltjarnarnes.is\/thjonusta\/ithrottirogtomstundir\/sundlaug\/\">Seltjarnarnes swimming pool<\/a> with two of my brothers (N\u00f6kkvi and P\u00e9tur) where we met Margr\u00e9t, P\u00e9tur&#8217;s girl friend.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t take any pictures, but the weather was perfect, sunny, mild (chilly) breeze, and the big board said it was 22\u00b0C\/72\u00b0F plus or minus a couple of degrees.  Anna wiped the boys out going down the big slide again and a again, and Bjarki wiped me out jumping into the very warm pool umpteen times as well as repeatedly loosing his feet and completely submerging himself while navigating the water around a tiny infant slide.  I finally discovered a treasure trove of arm-floaties and when Bjarki discovered what they did (i.e. kept him afloat if he stayed still) his face split open into the most self-satisfied smug grin ever! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>When we returned to my mom&#8217;s place (after the obligatory hot-dog outside the swimming pool, of course) Finnur told me that good friends of ours (Adda and Halli) were currently in a summer house just outside of Reykjavik, and that we were invited over to stay the night.  We accepted, and got there post-nap and post-quick-packing around dinner time.  We had scrumptious BBQ lamb for dinner as well as one of those &#8220;this is the life&#8221; moments.<\/p>\n<div style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px\"><a href=\"\/blogg\/uploaded_images\/IMG_2524-740577.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/blogg\/uploaded_images\/IMG_2524-740556.JPG\" \/><\/a><br \/>At the summer house in Hvalfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur, som 45 minutes away from Reykjav\u00edk.<br \/>Here Halli is getting Bjarki all set on the push-car.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px\"><a href=\"\/blogg\/uploaded_images\/IMG_2540-740613.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/blogg\/uploaded_images\/IMG_2540-740602.JPG\" \/><\/a><br \/>The view from the back of the house, up the hill.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px\"><a href=\"\/blogg\/uploaded_images\/IMG_2541-740647.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/blogg\/uploaded_images\/IMG_2541-740638.JPG\" \/><\/a><br \/>Looking in through the window.  Anna playing with Hildur and Arnar.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px\"><a href=\"\/blogg\/uploaded_images\/IMG_2550-740995.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/blogg\/uploaded_images\/IMG_2550-740672.JPG\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=hvalfj%C3%B6r%C3%B0ur&amp;sll=-48.922499,-28.828125&amp;sspn=177.884466,360&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=64.345854,-21.649933&amp;spn=0.247333,0.891953&amp;t=h&amp;z=11&amp;iwloc=A\">Hvalfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur<\/a> is a deep, tremendously pretty fjord, just north of Reykjav\u00edk.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finnur can&#8217;t take more than 30 days of consecutive calender days off for vacation (even though he&#8217;s got many more vacation days saved up) so he needs to work for three days before formally going on vacation. 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