We had a great time on our trip! We took literally thousands of pictures, and it’s impossible to show even a good representation of them. I will post some individual highlights, but here is this mortgage board for now. 🙂
It turns out that Reykjavik was a pretty interesting town to visit!
The church, which seems to be patterned after Asgard, was quite striking and could be seen from most places in the city.
From boiled goat’s head to this local stew which look more like mashed potatoes with lots of stuff mixed in with it, was quite interesting and pretty tasty overall.
This is the outside of the US embassy in reykjavik. We kind of got chewed out for taking this picture. 🙂
This was a recreation of a Viking house built on the foundations that were discovered some years ago. They excavated the area and reconstructed the site. It was quite fascinating to see how the original inhabitants likely lived.
It actually looked pretty comfortable. They would pump water through holes in the walls to allow hot guys or water through to warm the house in the winter. Pretty ingenious!
In small museums all over the city, the history of the Vikings that settled Iceland unfolded.
In several areas around town, geysers would erupt. Periodically. Some of them smelled pretty bad, but they were all pretty fascinating.
Some areas were quite large and had bubbling mud all over the place.
This sunken volcano was a stop on a road trip that we took as a tour.
Walking trails let you get right up close to the geyser action! No guardrails, just the sign saying that you might die if you step off the walkway. 🙂
Golden falls was quite striking!
The first day we were there, it was pretty Misty.
We ended up going back and got a much nicer view.
On one side of this rift, is the North American plate while on the other side is the European plate.
The blue lagoon, a large natural spa, was our favorite place by far!
The volcano man, a volcanologist who got pretty famous for taking close up pictures of volcanoes along with some pretty fantastic videos, gave a very good demonstration of volcanology.
We watched a younger version of the volcano man explained what we’re about to see. 🙂
It was a pretty impressive demonstration!
Several of the recurring geysers were tapped and used as power generation and hot water generation.
They really let you get up close to the action. 🙂
At one point we went out to the coast where a lava flow flowed into the ocean and was now being broken up by the pounding waves. It was quite stunning!
Our Northwest Family 