{"id":5577,"date":"2012-05-23T14:10:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T14:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/?p=5577"},"modified":"2012-06-18T18:23:53","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T18:23:53","slug":"icelander-potluck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/icelander-potluck\/","title":{"rendered":"Icelander-Potluck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We lay-low the day after <a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/monterey-bay-aquarium\/\">visiting the Monterey Bay Aquarium<\/a> &#8211; no need to overexert ourselves!! \u00a0The kids watched too much <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/\">YouTube<\/a>, and I went to have lunch with some of the Stanford girls (Sarah was dizzy and\u00a0effectively\u00a0comatose from sleep-deprivation, and couldn&#8217;t make it) while Augusto manned the fort. \u00a0At 5:30 pm we headed to a nearby park to meet a group of Icelanders for a potluck. \u00a0We still know quite a few Icelandic families in the area, but didn&#8217;t have time to individually pay them a visit &#8211; so we just asked them all to come to us! \u00a0The Lottas, Siggas, S\u00f3lveigs and Svavas showed up and we had a lovely time. \u00a0By the way, that same park was the scene of our <a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/a-sunday-of-goodbyes\/\">goodbye potluck some two years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_5578\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_7410.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5578\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5578\" title=\"IMG_7410\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_7410.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_7410.jpg 660w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_7410-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arnar and S\u00f3lveig brought their three kids, so much bigger than the last time we saw them!<\/p><\/div><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5579\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_7416.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5579\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5579\" title=\"IMG_7416\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_7416.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_7416.jpg 660w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_7416-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5579\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Table overview. It was surprisingly windy out, but fortunately not too cold.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5580\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_7423.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5580\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5580\" title=\"IMG_7423\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_7423.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_7423.jpg 660w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_7423-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5580\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00dalfar with his first-born as well as Svava&#39;s first-born.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5581\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_7427.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5581\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5581\" title=\"IMG_7427\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_7427.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_7427.jpg 660w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_7427-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5581\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anna chatting. She likes to do that. \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_5582\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_7433.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5582\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5582\" title=\"IMG_7433\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_7433.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_7433.jpg 660w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_7433-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Svava and Lotta and their first-borns. It was so much fun to see everybody! \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We lay-low the day after <a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/monterey-bay-aquarium\/\">visiting the Monterey Bay Aquarium<\/a> &#8211; no need to overexert ourselves!! \u00a0The kids watched too much <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/\">YouTube<\/a>, and I went to have lunch with some of the Stanford girls (Sarah was dizzy and\u00a0effectively\u00a0comatose from sleep-deprivation, and couldn&#8217;t make it) while Augusto manned the fort. \u00a0At 5:30 pm we headed to a nearby park to meet a group of Icelanders for a potluck. \u00a0We still know quite a few Icelandic families in the area, but didn&#8217;t have time to individually pay them a visit &#8211; so we just asked them all to come to us! \u00a0The Lottas, Siggas, S\u00f3lveigs and Svavas showed up and we had a lovely time. \u00a0By the way, that same park was the scene of our <a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/a-sunday-of-goodbyes\/\">goodbye potluck some two years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5578\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_7410.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5578\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5578\" title=\"IMG_7410\" src=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_7410.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_7410.jpg 660w, https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/IMG_7410-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-5578\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Arnar and S\u00f3lveig brought their three kids, so much bigger than the last time we saw them!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/icelander-potluck\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-container col-md-12"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5733,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5577\/revisions\/5733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrefna.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}