Well everybody probably knows it by now, it´s Carmen’s birthday tomorrow. So, just in case I will not see you (Carmen) on skype or msn tomorrow, I want to let you know that I haven’t forgot about your birthday.

So...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CARMEN

Hope you enjoy your day. I´ll be thinking about what we can do when we meat again to celebrate it and ehh, other things.

A big teddy bear hug.

/Tigra

Jæja, alles hat ein Ende nur die Wurst hat zwei ;-)

Now the time is there, that i have to say goodbye to Iceland (at least for now ;-))... On friday the 15th I’m gonna fly back to Germany :-/

Last night i had a little goodbye-party with some of the people i shared my time with here in Iceland. I had such a great time here, even though, i did not plan to stay that long...  When i came to Iceland on 27th of July last year, i thought to stay max. 3 months. But then i didn't get a place to study, i liked my work here and there was nothing which was tearing me back to Germany - so i just stayed - and i stayed and i stayed a little longer :-) And now a year has passed…

When i come home next weekend, I’ll have a busy schedule. On saturday i will probably visit the animal hospital where i used to work and go partying with friends in the evening :-) On sunday it's my mum's birthday, and i will see my older sister and my grandma again :-) And on Monday i will already be in Munich to go to the Oktoberfest with a very good friend of mine... But only for 2 or 3 days, then i will go back home to meet more friends and organize some things. And then hopefully Lovísa will come for a visit so we can go partying on the Oktoberfest and drink beer until we die :-)  (ok, maybe just until we lay under the table ;-)) I count on you Lovísa :-D

So far... kveðjur, Carmen

Jæja    And the first weekend of August there was a huge festival on Vestmannaeyjar. This festival is hold since many many years and it's thought to be very special...

I was thinking about going there last year, but didn't do it, so i decided to go this year i flew there on wednesday with Diana and Stephen. We spent the first day shopping and walking arround... In the evening we put up our 5-stars-tent in the garden of a guesthouse. We thought it would be quite comfortable, to have a shower and a kitchen, that's why we didn't stay at the camping side of the festival.

The program of the following days:

Thursday: buying clothes and rain coats/ Diana:"Wow, you look like Julia Roberts!"/ "pick-up-dance" in the evening

Friday morning: i got to know, how it feels like to be cinderella - or: who put the shoe in the drawer??

Friday evening: Miss Pocahontas got a bit too drunk / "Rennibraut er ekki buin!" /or: fear in the garden house...

Saturday: Who the fuck is Eva??? / or: why was Jonsi of "i svörtum fötum" so interested in Halli???

Sunday: the final countdown

Monday: time to say goodbye /waiting at the airport

We had such a great time! Volume 2 next year

Two days after i came home from the Laugavegur-trip we started a little riding-tour with 13 of our horses.

The first day went from Lágafell to Fljótshlið, then from Fljótshlið to Gunnarsholt, the third day from Gunnarsholt to Leirubakki, the fourth day from Leirubakki to Gunnarsholt, then from Gunnarsholt to Hvolsvöllur and finally on the sixth day from Hvolsvöllur back home. It was soooo nice especially the last three days, when the weather was so fine.

It was a great experience and it was very interesting to see, how the horses changed during the trip. It seemed to be that they liked it, too. I think the most remarking thing on the trip was, when we rode through a wide river with two islands on. One smaller one and one with a little forest on. We set the handhorses free and one group rode in front of them, and the other one behind them. But the free horses were not very found of crossing that river, so they just turned and went on the island with the trees on... But we managed to get them off the island and go to the other side of the river. But it was a quite funny situation... to loose the handhorses on an island in a river

Jæja, there was so much going the last weeks and just no time to sit down and write...

So you'll get a "short-version" of what i've been doing since the beginning of july...

After i came home from Landsmót i spent two days at home and left Lágafell again to go to the highland. I went with Stephen by bus to Landmannalaugar, where we chilled a little in the natural hot pot and went for a walk to Ljotipollur. We spent the night there in a too small tent, in a too thin sleeping bag, on very stony ground. So i can´t say, that i was very fresh, when we started off next morning, to walk to Hrafntinnusker...

But it was so nice weather and the landscape just amazing!!! We arrived in Hrafntinnusker arround lunchtime and decided to walk further the same day. So we walked over Álftarvatn to Hvanngil and spent the night there in the old horse-stable. It was quite comfortable, to sleep on a maitress and to have some space to strech out after a long walk...

The next day we started off arround lunchtime in veeeery beautiful weather, to walk to Emstrur and visit Kerstin (a ex-worker of Lágafell) at the hut Botnar... It was quite hot in the black lava-desert, we had to walk through. And when we arrived at Botnar, i had the shape of my sunglasses "burned" on my face     It was soooo nice, at Botnar and i would have liked to stay the night... but we decided to walk further to Þorsmörk the same day.

Before we came into Þorsmörk, we had to cross a glacial-river... It was maybe a little more then knee-deep an FUCKING-cold !!! I thought my feet wold fall off right away, when i walked barefoot through the river... But as reward, there came a beautiful little forest with the smell of herbs in the air on the other side    We spent the night in Þorsmörk at the hut in Langidalur.

The next morning Stephen left to walk over Fimmvörðurháls to Skogar, but i was way too tired, so i had a relaxing day in Þorsmörk

Wow, time passes quickly. I feel like just arrived hear, and I´m starting my flight training. Instead I´m almost finished. Finished my PPL 2 months ago and my multi this week, and today, I´m starting my multi-instrument training. I´m so looking forward

Tomorrow is my birthday (jeh…) and I’ll start the day by flying in the multi-engine at 8 am (no sleep-in for me ) then I’m thinking of going to the beach and surf with the girls. Then in the evening we are going to have a party. I just wished my friends in Iceland where here too. It would be the best gift I could ever have.

I´ll write more after the weekend, maybe I´ll have something fun to write about

Over&out, Lovisa

Ps. I can’t make it home this summer like I planed I have too much to do and I really want to make it to the October fest…

Of course it was out of question, that i had to go to Landsmót So i started off on thursday morning...

After a couple of hours drive we arrived in Vindheimamelar and it was about to find a good place for our 5 stars tent   But of course, the place we chose was wrong, at least on the opinion of "the guy from the blue tent"

So our tent got moved to the "right place" - that was approximately 1m behind the blue tent - and of course the only reason, why this was the "right place" was, that our tent would then be protected from the wind by "the blue tent" ( ..."and you know, it's always warm in the blue tent - so if you get cold during the night... you can always come into the blue tent!" Jahááá, of course... 

The following days were filled with watching the greatest horses and - of course - PARTY

The pictures will tell the rest have fun!

Hey, this was a great week! It was soo beautiful summer weather (i sunburned my ears once again  ), i've been riding a lot, we cut the first grass and it ended with a really great  "i svörtum fötum" ball

On Monday Malin (a swedish girl working on Holtsmóli) came for a vistit, to take some pictures of Lágafell. We went over the place on horse, and it was quite nice Malin, i hope your friend is gonna enjoy all the nice pictures you took  

On Tuesday we had kind of a LITTLE disagreement with one of our horses and he managed to ruin the round-pen   So i spent a couple of hours to fix it and make it more break-out secure

On thursday it was soooo perfect weather, that i decided to go on some little trips on horse. First i went to Guðnastaðir, to visit Theresia. And afterwards  i went with Guðný, Birgitta (my personal assistant ) and 5 horses to Gunnarshólmi, to have a little picknick wow, that was so nice, i enjoyed it a lot ->pics on my fotki page!

On saturday the horses got a day off, 'cause i milked in the morning an painted our round-pen with wood preservative - uuuuuuh, disgustingly smelling stuff But it looks very fancy now  Halldór cut 12ha of grass and probably got traktor-sick after driving in circles for hours

Jæja, and finally i went on the "i svörtum fötum" concert in Ingolfshvoll. It was the best concert i saw, since i came to Iceland!!!! They are soooo fucking good!! It was sooooo good fun! Jónsi is a real great entertainer!   Afterwards we went to a "private party", kept on drinking german stuff (thumbs up for Berentzen Apfelkorn ) and enjoyed the guys playing guitar for us   So, i'm gonna take it easy today and try to recover, to be prepared for the next weekend on Landsmót

Kisses&hugs, Carmen

Hey

Just got back from flying, was finishing the last hours in the Cessna (single-engine). So from now on I’m just going to be flying the Duchess (multi-engine).

I took lot of pictures on my new camera that I bought yesterday (the old one was not handling it anymore: S ). I’ll put some in when I have more time.

Last Saturday we had BBQ at the beach, because we where celebrating Mid-summer-night (we held the party a bit earlier because some of the people are going home tomorrow ). As usually the Americana brought  LOT of beer and we played football, and “burning ball” (some Swedish game).

Well there’s not much more to tell from San Diego for now...

So SeeYa

Over&out, Lovisa

Jæja, today we went to the 17th of june festivities at Gunnarshólmi... almost all of us went there on horse, even Stefan (our new worker) who has been only once (!!!) on a horse before... but he and the horses did fine, so no one fell off and it was quite fun to ride there

We enjoyed ourselves with games, food and music and in the end there was a Tölt-competition for everyone. Even though i was trying to refuse some particular person just signed me up and i was kind of forced to start   It felt a bit strange to compeed with almost only professionals and i felt like a little girl hopping arround on it's pony

But all in all it was a REALLY nice day and i will finish it with going out again and let some sun shine in my face

Kisses&hugs, Carmen

Jæja, the weather was with us last saturday and we had a GREAT GREAT party

I just saw a video of that evening/night, made by some people. And ...hehehe... even though it does not show me of my best side (*hm) it was sooooo much fun to watch it!!! I've been loughing and loughing and loughing some more

We started to grill arround 9pm and the food was really nice: we had different kinds of meat, lobster and a couple of salads. And of course a lot to drink

The bowle was finished very soon, but luckily that was not the only available stuff... So we kept on partying and having fun until the early morning

Thanks to Frauke and Gummi, for all the effort you put in that party! Volume 2 next summer

Pictures will be soon on public.fotki.com/gleymmerei and on this page as well. Hope you'll enjoy them

/Carmen

Hey

Well the latest news from San Diego…

The good news is that I started my ground training on the multi-engine this morning. It was fun (jehjeh, I know, I’m so much of a flight dork ) learning all the system and how everything works. It’s going to be quite interesting to see how I’ll do on Wednesday on my first flight in the Duchess. I’m SOO looking forward.

The bad news is that one of my friends here in the flight school fell and broke one of the bones in his neck so he has to have some kind of a helmet around his head for the next 6months. And if the bone doesn’t heal he has to have an operation and then he’s not allowed to fly. I feel so sorry for him now because he loves flying and now he has to wait for 6 months before knowing if he’s allowed to fly or not.  If this would have happened to me (or any of the other guys) I wouldn’t know what to do. Because for us flying is like a drug, we needed it and we’re not happy unless we get to fly.

This will have to do for now, there’s a lot to study for my multi-engine check ride, and I just have 2-3weeks before my check ride.

Over&out, Lovisa

The weather forecast said it's gonna be fine and sunny weather in iceland's south over the weekend - perfect conditions for our grill-party

Now i just hope i'll still be able to make a good swabian potatoe-salad after being away from home for so long ;-)

/carmen

Here comes the brand new webpage of Lovísa and Carmen

It's a bit raw now, but we'll do our best to make sth nice out of it, to keep you up to date about what's going on in San Diego/USA and Hvolsvöllur/Iceland

The "latest news" of iceland:

*i saw "Poseidon" yesterday - one of the worst movies i ever watched but it was fun anyways

*Selfoss' youth is "bara núll"

*boring weather today (wind and a bit rain)

*we're gonna let our cows out today (the first time this year)!!

*i´m looking forward to our grill-party next saturday

*gonna go and train some horses now

Lovely greetings from Carmen

Testing testing...one, two, three

We are back

over&out