Getting up at the usual hour as if I went to bed at the normal time, I did my morning activities and also laundry. Then, I uploaded photos taken during the Snaefellsnes trip on the blog. Selecting photos from a big collection of photos was a demanding task.
Before continuing the tree around 9 a.m., I realized that I didn't take a photo of the work I had done last night. So, I did it...
I thought that I should do as much as possible everyday before leaving for the trip to the south. I aimed to finish the whole root part of the tree for the presentation on the 29th.
After 3 hours, I could make quite a progress to the tree. Its root part so far has been done more than half way...
During the working hours, I also cooked pork-beer stew for dinner. It needed to be cooked constantly with low heat for a couple of hours. TT messaged me around 2 p.m. that he was about to arrive at Metropolitan Hotel. I stopped working and rushed to the hotel.
In the evening after dinner (for which we had pasta with the stew I had made), we walked to Seltjarnanes peninsula. It was quite windy today. Although the sun was shining strongly, wind made me feel chilly... It was quite a walk to the peninsula. Now, I understood why this part of the city was usually cut from every map.
Grotta, a beach rich of bird life was a part of the end of peninsula. When we arrived there, it was the high tide time, meaning we can see the lighthouse from distance as it was impossible to walk there.
We were quite tired of walking with the wind along the shoreline. So, on the way back, we took the route through a residential area. The house in the picture below was the Medical and Healthcare Museum Nesstofa which we saw from the path. After walking for a while, we noticed a bus stop. And when we were checking the timetable, Bus 13 came. So, we stepped into the bus and counted all coins we had in order to pay the fare. As I expected, we didn't have precisely 560 ISK, the fare for 2 passengers. However, the bus driver was very kind to exchange his own money with ours, so that we could pay the bus fare. This process took very long actually. Luckily, the bus didn't have so many passengers. In Reykjavik, one must pay the exact fare by throwing money into a plexiglas box. The bus driver is responsible only for driving the bus. We were lucky to get a kind driver. We got off the bus near Tjörnin and walked to the residence.
When arriving at the residence, I continued the tree and worked until 1.40 a.m... The root eventually became heavier and heavier, so that letting them all hang from the desk wasn't possible as the trunk would fall as well. I had to tape part of the roots on the desk to balance the weight of the parts on the desk and that of those hanging from the desk.
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