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<\/a>Finnur's family and friends at the annual family new year's eve dinner.<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
<\/a>Festive decorations.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>The boys checking out the stash of fireworks in the garage.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Jonna putting the finishing touches on the buffet table.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Our hosts: Uncle T\u00f3mas and Jonna.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Mmmm... food, glorious food! \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>After dinner, we took the kids out to play with some fire... works.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Fancy...!<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Finnur assisting Bjarki holding a green flare.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Anna's turn to hold a flare.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Fire-fun for the whole family! \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>The two brothers, with little ones.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Bjarki with his cousin, Ragnhei\u00f0ur.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Hrei\u00f0ar with his Edda.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>The two Annas.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Ragnhei\u00f0ur and her mom, Eyr\u00fan.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Anna playing cards with Vignir.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>We dashed between municipalities just as the Annual Comedy Show was about to begin at 22:30. Once that was over, we hiked up onto the hill to watch the annual epic fireworks-display-of-crazy-Icelanders. This was as good as it got though because it took about 5-10 minutes before visibility went down to about 200 m due to excessive smoke and no wind.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>I handed my camera over to Bjarni, who proceeded to take the next few photos. Here are Sign\u00fd and P\u00e9tur.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>\u00c1sd\u00eds S\u00f3l doing her best Pokemon impression.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>N\u00f6kkvi with his Ylfa Mar\u00edn, who was not thrilled with all the noise.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Bjarki, me (!!) covering his ears, and Anna.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Family members sitting on a ledge. I'd left the 50 mm lens on the camera, which probably wasn't the smartest choice under the circumstances, seeing how hard it was to get a lot of people onto one image.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Finnur kept up his usual antics, and set off fireworks within spitting distance from us.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Arnar and Sign\u00fd with fireworks in the background.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>After midnight, we hiked down the hill again. Here is L\u00f3a with her starry-light outside the house.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Unnar sharing a sofa with a light-saber wielding Bjarki and Anna. Taken through a fogged-up lens.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>A cheerful Unnar.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>\u00c1g\u00fast opening some bubbly.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Little I\u00f0unn Hei\u00f0ur in her crib in the back-house.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Gaping at mommy.<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>N\u00f6kkvi, J\u00f3hanna, and I\u00f0unn. Ylfa was fast asleep by that point.<\/p><\/div>\n
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
We spent the last day of the year 2011 in pretty standard fashion. \u00a0We began by attending The Annual Dinner With Finnur’s Family (and a couple of their friends) at the lovely adobe of Finnur’s uncle and his wife. \u00a0After eating far too much, and playing with fireworks, we hightailed it to Hrefna’s family where we hiked up to the hill shortly before midnight (also an annual tradition) and attempted to see the crazy amount of fireworks being fired up at the new year.<\/p>\n