And a happy New Year!
Today's Ingólfur's father's 80th birthday and as usual, the whole family met at his place, having cake and chats, singing together and so on.
I think he liked having us around, eventhough he doesn't like to get that much attention. Anyway, he couldn't help getting attention today ;)

Finally home after a quite long time trying to go back north. When I arrived to Iceland on 27th of December, I was supposed to go straight north with the last flight to Akureyri. Well, after getting to know, that my bag was still in Copenhagen (they had to leave all the luggage there just to take extrafuel to get all the way to Keflavík) and my flight north being cancelled due to bad weather, I stayed with Nonni, Sigrún and their kids. The next day, the planes still didn't go north and not the day after. I was so lucky that Nonni was heading north anyway and I sneaked a trip with them. My bag was on her way north already, got it today. 
Well, it was good coming home and meeting the horses today. Always very calming.

At the moment I'm visiting my family in Austria. My dad had his 70th Birthday 2 days ago and today we celebrated. It has been quite some time that all the family met so we enjoyed being together quite much, had a lot to talk and laugh about. Great to meet the whole bunch!

Our friend Gísli has been breeding horses successfully for quite some time. Among others Höfði frá Húsavík, which was worldchampion in fivegait and pacetest 1993 with his rider Sigurbjörn Bárðarson. Kamban frá Húsavík is very well known for winning the kids class at Landsmót 3 times in a row, his brothers Hraunar and Flói are doing well in Europe, whilst his first prize sisters Hrauna and Bjarklind are Gíslis main breeding mares at the moment. 
Today he asked us to take some pictures of the youngest offspring of Hrauna, a promising young stallion born 2015, sired by Vökull frá Efri-Brú.
Hersir had quite some fun showing off and it was great to watch him.