Warning: Longest blog ever. Lots of pictures of the scenery, and pictures of the scenery and chloe, and the scenery and chloe and the family. It was just so beautiful I couldn't help myself but take so. many. pictures.
Day 1:
Day one was a little low key. We landed got our rental car and groceries. We went on a little walk by our place and went to bed.
The end of our little walk when it started to pour.
DAY 2:
Our first waterfall. Rex enthusiastically stated "I am so thankful for waterfalls!"
Þorufoss
The continental divide.
View on the walk to the waterfall.
There are little cascades like this all over the place. We were walking to another waterfall.
Wind or swinging his hat?
Öxararfoss
Thumbs up from the clouds.
The clouds were amazing.
Ice-cream stop
Yes those are the cows hey get the Milk from to make our ice-cream. They also make the waffle cones there. YUMMY.
Burafoss.
It was tricky to find. We got lost a bit and Rex fell down a number of times in the mud, but we found it. I must say it was worth it.
Hotpots by Geyser.
Geyser.
Slow-mo geyser. This was a big eruption.
Slow-mo geyser. This was a big eruption.
Gullfoss is huge. The little dots are people.
When the sun hit it make a rainbow.
Faxi was so loooong.
Faxi was an amazing waterfall that is hard to get the scale of just how wide it really is.
Kerid. Former volcano turned lake.
Day 3:
Sometimes you don't get your way. It's tragic, of course.
The car we rented was tiny.
Reykjavik
Sun Voyager
Hallgrímskirkja
The sidewalks were cool
The art was so amazing.
The church was so clean and beautiful.
The benches are reversible depending on what is going on.
Organ.
Stained glass.
The back of the church.
Church art.
It was such a huge building. This is a testament you can make concrete look pretty.
While we were enjoying the city, Mike went diving in the continental divide. There is something amazing about being between to tectonic plates. He said the visibility was crystal clear.
Look at that handsome devil. He is such an inquisitive soul that loves to explore new things.
The continental divide dive is less about wildlife and more about geology and the crystal clear water that you can just see and see and see.
amazing!
Chloe's triple-decker jam sandwich.
Mouth of the cave.
Ike pack.
Cave Sky lights.
Chloe went head and greeted us as we exited the cave.
The sunsets would just keep going. It was such a long beautiful sunset.
Day 4:
Day 4:
Seljalandsfoss
Walking behind the waterfall. It was HUGE.
As if this water fall isn't amazing enough you walk down the path about 100M
You see the crack and think, What? You walk on rock on that right side...
Ta-da! Gljúfrabúi a huge waterfall in the little nook.
It is magical as you stand in this little area with this tall waterfall that mists around you.
Rex by the entrance
Rex did this sweet little dance.
Ike found rocks.
Ike was so pleased that he got up into the cave, he did a little cave dance.
Walking back there are all these little waterfalls.
Tuckered out.
Rex trying on Icelandic wares.
Vic Black Sand Beach
It is pumice stone from the volcano's and so pretty and soft.
Who needs a sand bucket if you have a shoe?
Pretty formations
Cheese.
Basalt columns, Reynisdrangar
They are so cool.
Rex got his feel all disgusting and tried to wipe them on me.
Puffins.
On our way to the lighthouse we found these puffins. There were a ton of them.
It is one thing to see them in the zoo, another to just happen upon them.
Getting home we were tired but Ike enjoyed glass after glass of apple juice.
Poor Ike's bed at the cottage.
The cottage
The kids at the top of the hill by our cottage.
Day 5:
Glacier. It is hard to appreciate the texture.
laufskálavarða
One of the first farms mentioned in Icelandic history was here in 894 but was destroyed by a volcano. It is considered good luck to form a cairn for good luck. The kids loved it.
Ike's favorite thing about the trip was likely the rocks.
skogafoss
There were so many people.
Day 6:
Day 6:
So we came back to skogafoss in the morning and there were hardly any people.
Driving to our glacier tour we stopped at a park and had lunch
Bottom of the glacier.
The truck riding up to the glacier.
The Glacier
more selfies to keep kids happy.
Waiting to go into the glacier.
Inside you can see the different lines from each year of snow.
Some of the lines are dirt and some are from volcanic eruptions.
The altar. They have a chapel and some people have been married in the Glacier.
The bus ride to our car.
The car ride to the hotel.
The sunset on our way to the hotel.
Day 7:
Blue lagoon was a family highlight. We all just loved it, except when you get the sulfery, salty water in your mouth. Ick.
Ike overjoyed and a little freaked that he is floating on his own.
Day 7:
Blue Lagoon.
Swimming in Geo thermal heated water is awesome.
Volcanic rock.
Chloe lost the back to her earring so she stole mine.
Viking Museum
AAAARGH!
Prisoner.
Rower
Replica of a viking ship that some dudes sailed from Iceland to America. The Icelandic people sailed to America about 500 years before Columbus.
The whole trip I bribed the kids with tic-tacks if they smiled for the pictures. Best idea ever.
Hot pots. It looked and smelled a lot like Yellowstone.
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