{"id":20516,"date":"2018-02-13T17:35:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T17:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=20516"},"modified":"2018-09-15T17:04:29","modified_gmt":"2018-09-15T17:04:29","slug":"snow-ash-wednesday-aka-icelandic-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/snow-ash-wednesday-aka-icelandic-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow + Ash Wednesday (aka Icelandic Halloween)"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Photos taken on 13-14 February, posted on 15 September 2018.\u00a0 Us girls are at a coffee house downtown, while Bjarki is watching a movie with a friend nearby.<\/em>]<\/p>\n

It felt like February was ridiculously packed.\u00a0 It was sandwiched between two work-trips of mine to Canada, and contained Emma’s birthday aaand the kid’s school winter-break, during which we traveled to the UK where we left Finnur behind so he could work in London for a whole week.\u00a0 Phew!<\/p>\n

In between the birthday and the UK trip were two\u00a0 days, the first was a standard but pretty Tuesday, while the second was Ash Wednesday, aka the Icelandic Halloween! (14 images total)<\/p>\n

Tuesday 13 February 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Arriving at work at 08:15 to an eerie calm and damped lights after nighttime snowfall.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

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They’ve now installed quite a few electric car chargers on the parking lot, free of charge. Me likey!<\/p><\/div>\n

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The customary snow piles of February.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Inside, the house administration was dealing with the unhappy fact that our new office space was built in what is essentially a large ware-house structure with a roof that is very hard to water-seal… as evidenced by the puddle on the floor!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Emma insisted on posing with a fancy headpiece before leaving daycare.<\/p><\/div>\n

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After finishing swim-class, she insisted on decorating the decorative boxes she’d gotten for her birthday!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Wednesday 14 February 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Trick or treating in the neighborhood is a very recent development for Ash Wednesday.\u00a0 Anna decided she was too old for this foolery, so I took the younger ones out on a walk around the neighborhood.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Bjarki running down the hill from the top house. The participating houses had markers posted outside.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Emma showing the contents of her bag.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Color-correcting these images properly was so hard that I just gave up and did… something. Here’s Bjarki being very fluorescent.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Bjarki promised me that next year he’d wear a coat!<\/p><\/div>\n

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Getting darker.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A crowd of kids offering up a song for candy.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Siblings, cold, but mostly happy with their haul.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[Photos taken on 13-14 February, posted on 15 September 2018.\u00a0 Us girls are at a coffee house downtown, while Bjarki is watching a movie with a friend nearby.<\/em>]<\/p>\n

It felt like February was ridiculously packed.\u00a0 It was sandwiched between two work-trips of mine to Canada, and contained Emma’s birthday aaand the kid’s school winter-break, during which we traveled to the UK where we left Finnur behind so he could work in London for a whole week.\u00a0 Phew!<\/p>\n

In between the birthday and the UK trip were two\u00a0 days, the first was a standard but pretty Tuesday, while the second was Ash Wednesday, aka the Icelandic Halloween! (14 images total)<\/p>\n

Tuesday 13 February 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Arriving at work at 08:15 to an eerie calm and damped lights after nighttime snowfall.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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