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<\/a>21 December 2010: The day of our arrival was the first day that Heathrow was fully opened after being shut down due to a little bit of snow. Here is the snow in dad's backyard later that day.<\/p><\/div>\n
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<\/a>22 December 2010: This turned out to be the default for our kids this visit, i.e. watching one of the tens of children's channels available on the TV. Yes, us parents were too lazy to do anything else really!<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Having a bit of snack in the kitchen. Anna's eyeing the kitchen TV...<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>While I finished off some Christmas shopping, Finnur took the kids out back and they made this handsome snowman! \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Later that day I took the kids to the local park, where we played until dusk.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Anthony, Anna and Bjarki at one of the slides.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>24 December 2010: I took the kids out to the park again, to break the TV-spell. It was a lovely day, yet chilly.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Anna on the swings. The swings weren't designed with frost in mind, so they were quite a bit more reluctant to swing than normal.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Siblings and all the snow! I've never seen snow stick around for that long in England!<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>The sidewalks were solid ice in places, and veeeery slippery. I shudder at the thought of all the old people trying to navigate these paths!<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Finnur made Christmas Eve dinner because it was Shirley's Birthday! \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Since Bjarki collapsed into bed, and could therefore not open any presents, we let Anna open a couple of her birthday presents, one of which was this really pretty dress.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>More toys!!<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>25 December 2010: Anthony, Bjarki and Anna sitting by the tree early on Christmas Day morning.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>There were lots of presents to be opened!! <\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Bjarki opens a big one!<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Anthony opens one.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Something funny going on... \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Presents presents everywhere!! \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Shirley made a lovely Christmas Day meal. \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Gunnar with his children, and grand-children.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Good times!! \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>26 December 2010: Still snow outside...<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>27 December 2010: The Christmas Jigsaw completed! I like these! \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Shirley's three sons, their spouses and kids all joined us on the 27th and stayed overnight.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>The littlest one gets a diaper change. Awwww... \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Dinner was followed by some gift-opening mayhem!<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>28 December 2010: Half the kids stayed on an extra night (the third is a teenager who barely left Anthony's room, aka The Computer Room) \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>29 December 2010: Shirley in the kitchen with the two computer addicts, some twenty minutes before our departure.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Group photo! We hope to be back soon! \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Somewhat shockingly, we haven’t visited my dad in England since before Anna was born. \u00a0Instead, Dad and Anthony traveled to Iceland and to California to say hi. \u00a0To remedy this situation, we decided to spend Christmas in England this year. \u00a0Little did we know that we’d have more snow (well, for longer anyway) than Iceland did!<\/p>\n