We had big plans for this morning and actually thought we'd jump out of bed to visit a slew of culturally enriching museums before our 2pm bus to the airport. Then the alarm went off and it was 34 degrees/pouring down rain so...pffffffffff. Back to sleep we went. Eventually we were approaching the end of breakfast so we had no choice but to excise ourselves from that blissfully warm bed and drag ourselves downstairs. We saw the buffet. This time, we knew exactl...

Today was the BIG day: hiking on a glacier. Now, I know you can do this all over the world, but there's just something about the idea of hiking a glacier in ICEland that gets me really excited. Plus it's a first for me no matter what so...cool beans. Our first stop of the day was back at the lagoon. I was excited about it because I thought I would get to see everything in a whole new way. And I was right, but that "new way" was hidden in an impenetrable wall of...

I guess we should be happy...we did TECHNICALLY see the Northern Lights last night, but I think Mother Nature was just phoning it in. All the forecasts said there wouldn't be much going on but there's always that deep down, irrational hope that something strange, extraordinary, and somehow completely unforeseen will happen anyways. We stood outside after dinner, watching and waiting. A green haze slowly appeared in two waves which could best be describes as faint...

I'm definitely glad I didn't sit down and write out a post for yesterday because it probably would've sounded something like this: it's cold and rainy, there's no snow, and our northern lights chances are zilch. I hate everything. THE END! Fortunately, an extra 24 hours can change a lot. Things did start out fairly rough. The nonstop flight was only seven hours, but I happened to be assigned to the one seat on the plane that absolutely refused to recline, no m...

We haven't had all that much to keep us busy over the past few days; we've basically just been killing time and waiting to get on our last flight of the trip. After our very short stint on Oslo we got on another long-haul train to Stockholm (no icy mountain views this time), got on the now familiar metro to our hostel and took our requisite nap of the day. It's pretty sad really, but we keep looking at the prices of food and things and thinking "Wow, it's so chea...