Around the World Adventures!: 27th of October

Taz and I try to get tons done in a day! Our morning started with our host Julia. We had a nice cultural discussion. I pulled my laundry out of the car and let it dry on the heater. Only a few fit on the heater so I put some on the heater and some I left around the room and then I swapped them.... Wohooooo for laundry being dry and having clothes :) Yes it is the small things. We had tea-coffee and discussed studying and being in the U.S. and how she came to be where she is. She showed us the lambs they selected; they painted one green so that they could keep an eye on it. We talked about ham and how some can be so inexpensive and some can be so expensive. It is based on weight so sometimes water is put in to add weight. She also told us that the government wants to make sure their people are healthy and put all nutritional values on items and are always have information presented. Apparantly, Julia used to get Cocoa Puff but Iceland created a lower fat version (by lowering the sugar)of it b/c there was too much sugar. So, we left.

We had a quarter tank of gas so stopped for the first time in our whole trip!!!!! It was freezing 1 degree/ 2 degree Celsius. The tank was like frozen shut but I got it open. However, the machine did not take my credit icard. Apparantly, I had to go inside, quote a price, get a money card and stick that in. So we did. We had an hour and made it to the caves. They didn't see our reservation b/c their windmill was down and henceforth, their electricity, but Taz had a picture. We went through the 4 parts of the cave that was created by a volcano eruption, more specifically the lava! We saw the water cave, the troll cave (where trolls lived, the spirit hall (which used to scare folks), and the guts where I got to drink water from the fountain of youth. I will forever be and look young! ahahahahah. We went to the Hellner Visitor Center where we learned from other tourists that yes, the northern lights did show up, just around 2300-2400 :( They said it may come out tonight! Hope! We continued on to Djupalonssandur. A beach that has no sand but pebbles! There are rocks that we attempt to pick up to determine if we are farmers and we both are. The pebbles-marbles also have the remaints of ship wreck on them! It was very slippery but a I found an area to practice my Hapkido and balancing! Taz and I lost each other, but we assumed that the best place to find each other is at the car. So there we went, to the car and we found each other. We continued to Amarstapi, a beautiful formation of rocks. We drove to Buoir but were to tired and cold to hike so we just took pictures. The glacier hike was closed but we went through the mountain, and got rain, ice, hail, and snow covered roads. We made it back just fine and had a lovely dinner of boiled fish, with the sauce being lamb fat, and a nice side of mashed potatoes. I stayed up till 2 to finish things and try to see the northern lights. No lights :(