Reykjavik Winter Lights Festival last weekend was an Icelandic celebration of the winter and the growing light after a long period of darkness. At school, all the children and my friends dressed up kinda like halloween in Canada but nothing scary, for example there were farmers, anything you can think of, and since my shirt had a snowboarder on it I was a ROCK STAR :) We could bring a treat of anything we wanted so i took a bag of M & M's...Yummeeeee! We are never allowed sugar so this was real cool.
On Friday night, mom and I walked downtown as all the museums were free, there was acting, music in the street and many shows to go to.
My favourite was the blacksmiths working under the night sky making knives, scissors and blades of all sorts as men together working, one man turning the fire burner and other men banging on the hot iron with sparks flying everywhere. One man making a knife stopped once in awhile and played a whistle-type instrument from Siberia, we asked as it was real different sounds. In the Settlement 871 +- Exhibition, there were real Viking men with their sheilds, swords, iron mesh helmets and we saw the remains of the oldest home in Reykjavik which is under the ground and we learned how they built the house and lived there.
I made a pirate hat ,ship and eye patch at the Viking Maritime museum on the ocean. There were guys there that talked about space exploration and i learned about star searching before going thru the whole museum about the history of Icelandic fishing and maritime stuff. The big Reykjavik library had all of the lights out and people were all over playing chess or reading books in the dark with flashlightss. Mom and I had brought our flashlight and she read two books to me in the dark...one was about Shrek and the other "The Hungry Alligator". We went to the Art Museum, kinda boring, with some of mom's friends, students from Japan, Spain and France. We went to Burgertime, a burger joint with the best burgers in town and the street is also called Burgerstreet (haha), down at the harbour. Some other activities we could've gone to were hip hop and street dancing, dark rooms, swimming pool night, museum night, making snow houses, singers, actors, circus acts, storytellers, architecture with lights & shadows, video and comic exhibitions, witches story time, poetry slams, dream interpretations, folk songs in the dark and origami workshops for kids. If you want to look at all the stuff it's at this link Reykjavik Light Festival.
On Friday night, mom and I walked downtown as all the museums were free, there was acting, music in the street and many shows to go to.
My favourite was the blacksmiths working under the night sky making knives, scissors and blades of all sorts as men together working, one man turning the fire burner and other men banging on the hot iron with sparks flying everywhere. One man making a knife stopped once in awhile and played a whistle-type instrument from Siberia, we asked as it was real different sounds. In the Settlement 871 +- Exhibition, there were real Viking men with their sheilds, swords, iron mesh helmets and we saw the remains of the oldest home in Reykjavik which is under the ground and we learned how they built the house and lived there.
I made a pirate hat ,ship and eye patch at the Viking Maritime museum on the ocean. There were guys there that talked about space exploration and i learned about star searching before going thru the whole museum about the history of Icelandic fishing and maritime stuff. The big Reykjavik library had all of the lights out and people were all over playing chess or reading books in the dark with flashlightss. Mom and I had brought our flashlight and she read two books to me in the dark...one was about Shrek and the other "The Hungry Alligator". We went to the Art Museum, kinda boring, with some of mom's friends, students from Japan, Spain and France. We went to Burgertime, a burger joint with the best burgers in town and the street is also called Burgerstreet (haha), down at the harbour. Some other activities we could've gone to were hip hop and street dancing, dark rooms, swimming pool night, museum night, making snow houses, singers, actors, circus acts, storytellers, architecture with lights & shadows, video and comic exhibitions, witches story time, poetry slams, dream interpretations, folk songs in the dark and origami workshops for kids. If you want to look at all the stuff it's at this link Reykjavik Light Festival.