New Year... New food

Hello everyone..
Happy new year, hope you had a good one and that this one will be even better :)

Celebrating the New year in Iceland is pretty cool.
We get together to stuff our faces full of some of the best foods we can think of. (there's generally a lot of double cream, butter and other taboo stuff involved.)
Some people break out the barbeque and throw on a slab of meat or two or three.
Seriously... the BBQ! in a snowstorm.
It's the best.
Then there's the traditional "sitting around and watching TV" part of the evening, when the national tv station RÚV breaks out the fine china and tells us all the interesting things that happened this past year both here in Iceland and abroad.
That's nice. We forget too fast.
Then there is a bonfire...
There are about 20 around the capital, big blazing mountains of fire.
Everybody get's together and there is singing involved.
It's funny, because most of the people there are strangers.
Everybody's there to have a good time.
Some people bring little fireworks to light up the sky.
Pretty.
After that we go back home and have a blast of our own.
Have you ever seen a black starlit sky suddenly turn into a puddle of light and color.
I have.
It's amazing.
Everybody and their grandmother get's out and lights at least one little firework.
Kids stand around with blazing torches and sparkling lights.
There is so much noise you have to shout.
But that's ok because you don't want to talk anyway.
There are flashes of light and color that stun you into silence.
This is the Icelandic midnight.
We celabrate the New Year with a boom.
Then a party.

I made a cake...
It's a rocket, heading for the stars.
it's one of those marzipan marvels that taste so good with coffee :)

Happy New Year