Day 62-preparing for visitors

   March 6-As of yesterday, we have been in Iceland for two whole months.  Think we might be knowledgeable enough about the country to start hosting American guests?  Well, we will soon find out, because Sally's parents fly in early tomorrow morning and Shan's family will visit later this month.  Sally's folks are flying from Denver to Boston and then on to Keflavík on the same flights we took two months ago.  Of course, that means that they are scheduled to arrive at 6:40 am.  Since we intend to meet them at the airport, we decided to spend tonight in Reykjavík so we could sleep a little later in the morning.
   We spent the day getting work done and setting up the apartment to accommodate two more people.  The weather was supposed to deteriorate (and did deteriorate) late in the afternoon, so we decided to leave as early as possible.  We picked Spencer up from school and then drove to Varmaland to get the girls when their school was getting out.  This makes all the more sense, when you realize that Varmaland is between Bifröst and Reykjavík.  The roads were wet, but that is considered to be excellent driving conditions here.  The kids must have been enjoying themselves in the backseat, because we made it to Reykjavík in no time according to them. 
   Since we had some free time available to us, we decided to do some shopping.  We bought some pillows for Sally's folks to use and then headed to Heiðrún to restock our beer cabinet, since the Beer Day celebration had severely depleted our supplies.  We checked into our apartment/hotel and then sped over to the second-hand store to look for any deals we could find.  The kids scored, by finding bags of used playmobil figures for pennies on the dollar.  Hopefully, they will stop asking for new, ridiculously expensive playmobile figures at
the Hagkaup store in Borgarnes. 

Our dessert from Hamborgarafabrikkan:
a very tasty muffin with colored fondant in the middle.

   By this point, it was supper time, so we took the kids out to eat at Hamborgarafabrikkan (the hamburger factory).  The adults had eaten there with Bifröst staff and faculty a few weeks back and thought the kids would enjoy it.  We tried to take them there the last time we were in Reykjavík, but it was a weekend night and the place was packed.  We got a table right away this time, but the restaurant did fill up a short time later.  We thought we might really spoil the kids by taking them to a movie.  However, kids' films are the exception to the rule and are usually dubbed, since kids cannot read the subtitles.  Consequently, we chose not to spend the money to see a French movie (A Monster in Paris) in Icelandic.  Instead, we did a little book-shopping and then hit the sack.