Svanhildur made a delicious traditional Christmas dinner (that's two early Christmasses for me so far this year!) which consisted of hangikjot (smoked leg of lamb), boiled potatoes with white sauce, peas, Christmas salad (apples and beets in a mayonnaise dressing), red cabbage, and the star event, laufabraud ( a crispy flatbread cut with decorative shapes - think of the snowflakes you cut out of paper in kindergarten, and that's how they look). All this gets washed down with a drink called "malt" which is a blend of orange pop and malt pop - there's no equivalent in Canada. It was all delicious! Check out the new sweater, too! Hilla knit it for me & it fits perfectly! They have been keeping me on a tight schedule of visits and activities. I get to sleep in the car between scheduled events :-)