It has been a while since I have updated my website, but now it is done.  

Jonatan with most of his A team, all of them are one year older: Adam, Jonatan, Jakob, Enok, Jon Helgi, Atli Mar, Gudmundur.  

This past weekend, we spent in Akranes at the big soccer tournament for Jonatans age group. The weather was really fine all weekend long (and Nonni has a burned forehead to proof this), and both kids and parents had a great time. The biggest plus, apart from taking part, was getting the team award for good behaviour, which only one out of about 15-20 teams gets!  

On the last day, the families, parents, friends were sitting in the stands from where this picture was taken, and the participants came walking in and took turns standing in front of the stands and got standing ovations every time, which must have been special for them. In total 89 teams took part, around 800 participants. 

This is almost the complete group of players of our team, around 70 kids, ages 7 and 8. 

Leah and Rachael, ready for a night on the town! 

Towards the end of May, we had a few really warm days, here are of course Sissa, Elin and Brynja 

Audunn Gauti, Sissas little brother, was sort of the mascot of their team, and he was everywhere on and of the field, in and out of the stands, so funny to watch him 

We went to the girl - soccer tournement in the westman islands the second weekend of June, and had a lot of fun, although the weather could have been better. Elin and Sissas team won the indoor championship which was great, and they played really well. We tried again to stay in our camper- just as we did when we came here for Tomas' soccer tournament, but after one miserable night, we gave up and retreated to a guesthouse. Halleluja!  

I like this picture, it was sooo windy up there, Jonatans hat blew of his head and we could lean into the wind almost with full weight - at least some of us ;) 

Leah, Rachael, Jonatan and me in the Westman islands on top of the volcano. Only 10-15 cm deep the earth was still incredibly warm, even though the outside temperatures rarely reach 15� C, and the eruption was 33 years ago.  

Rachael Friend and Rachael's friend Leah - I just HAD to write it this way. For you non believers : yes Rachael' s last name is Friend. I started this series of pictures on the wrong end so if you scroll down you get an explanation who these "people" are.  

Rachael in a typical fashion: writing/checking for emails 

Leah on the beach 

Leah on the Icelandic beach 

May 31st: Leah and her friend Rachael arrived in Iceland as a first stop on their fantastic Europe-trip. Needless to say, we LOVED having them, Leah was her own self - it was as if she had been here yesterday and getting to know Rachael was just so much fun. This picture is taken in Vik where we will overnight next time so Rachael does not have to spell Kirkjubaejarklaustur - which is where we spent the night - in her diary. They thought getting little glassbottles was "weird".  

This is May 13th in Iceland, still snowing. Last year, the childhood friends went to Holmavik, this is the male bonding took place in Skaftafell and the following pictures are from that weekend 

So when they were in Skaftafell they went to the yearly gathering og the guillemot eggs, which takes place in Ingolfshofdi, where a guy is lowered slowly over a cliff to gather the eggs. The harvest this time was 1135 eggs. Luckily, Nonni decided against giving it a try, because to me, although this is the traditional way, it is not the safest way of doing it, or as Rachael (Leah's friend) said: why didn't they just tie the rope around a tree? Those who have been in Ingolfshofdi will understand....  

So this is how they are holding the guy - he better be not heavier than 80 kg, and he better be friends with everyone! 

I am not sure if you will be able to see it well, but the green dots in the rocks are the actual eggs 

This is the "contraption" they use to ease the rope down which they are holding 

There is a system to how they divide the eggs, putting them in similar heaps and randomly assigning them to different groups who are supposed to get them.  

Ulla and Stjani  

This is the difference in size between the eggs of the Guillemot and the average icelandic chicken.  

I want to name this picture (in honor of Tomas' friend Dadi) "what are all these plus - signs doing in the garden?"