Eurovision

We've been watching Eurovision tonight (and Tuesday and Thursday as well) and the Icelandic entry has been doing really well. We'll see in about an hour how well.

Happy birthday

It's Bob's birthday today. Happy birthday sweetheart. We got him a book, Njála (one of the Icelandic sagas) in English, and then we made him a birthday cake.

Back home

We came back home from England yesterday. We went there on Saturday 3rd and stayed in a cottage on Ford Street for a week. "Auntie Pammy" (Bob's sister Pam) came back with us and she is staying for a week with us here in Akureyri.

We had a good week, we did some shopping, mostly clothes for the girls, picked up some goods that we'd ordered from Amazon and had sent to Pam, and did some sight seeing. The weather was fantastic, mostly around 20°C but on Saturday when we drove back to Stansted, it was 26 or 27°C! Then we came back to the wind and rain in Keflavík with it's 7°C. Quite some change.

We went to the National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth, it was OK but not much more than that. I think it can be done so much better and hopefully they will. Then we went to Paignton Zoo which was very nice. We saw lions, elephants, monkeys, birds and a lot of things. Rode on a little train and Sólveig Lilja put her hand on a stinging nettle and she didn't like that one bit! We walked around Tavistock a bit, they played in the Meadows and let out some steam. The last day we were there, we went to Trago Mills, where most of the attractions were closed but we got to see the model trains and that was really fantastic.

Right now I'm uploading pictures to a Tavistock album on Picasa.