Rain! Finally!

After what seems like weeks and weeks of hot, hot weather that seems unbearably dry and muggy all at the same time, we're finally getting a wet spell. Fingers crossed for a slightly cooler Saturday!

In other news, my brother has started his solo journey around Iceland. Fingers crossed for his safe arrival on at the airport in three weeks!

Stkkysomer, 269 km from where he started this morning. Tomorrow he plans to take a ferry north to the west fjords. He also said that he met a very nice Isreali couple and some locals.

Nature is Seriously Amazing

According to Mitchell, this fluke of nature is called the church floor. Apparently the people who discovered it thought that this was church ruins (I guess that they thought it was floor tiles or something). But really, it's a natural formation of basalt columns that were sheared off by a glacier, leaving these tile like rocks. Sooo cool!

Happy 23rd Trip Around The Sun To Me!

I'm celebrating yet another trip around the sun today. It's been a day punctuated with phone calls and birthday calls from Iceland, family visiting from Vermont, and a super yummy dinner of pork loin and squash topped off with a delicious snow man cake, just so we can pretend that it's winter again.

The only thing that would make this day better would be Grampa making a toast to my age (especially if he's off by a couple years). I guess the phone call suffices for now. < 3

Feeling hot? Check out these pictures...

My dear brother was kind enough to send us this picture of an icy ocean, with a caption akin to "hope this makes you feel cooler."

It's been a balmy 98 degrees down here... it's about 55 in Iceland.

Mitchell went swimming in this water. In a speedo. He is crazy.

More Icelandic beer

His favorite waterfall so far, the Svartifoss

Skaftafell glacier

Seljaneafoss. They walked behind this waterfall.

Happy Fourth of July!

Happy Birthday America!

Scenes from Iceland

Hrutrefull Glacier

This is Gulfoss the most famous waterfall in Iceland.

Another shot of Gullfoss

Landmannalaugar

My Mother, the Kitty Whisperer

The new kitty (I call her little kitty right now, we're still working on her name) joined our house last night. Snickers seems pretty hesitant about her (there were lots of hisses and growls), but Frisk, mellow as ever, continued to prove why she is my cat, by sniffing little kitty and then walking away.

Isn't she a cutie?

I love how little her tail is. Maybe that's why Frisk tolerates her...

Yes. She is sleeping. What a weird kid.