we're here! the flights were alright, comfort-wise. the second flight, from boston to reykjavik, was amazing. i didn't end up sleeping; two hours into the night, the light came back. the sun stayed just past the horizon, and all along where the water (or clouds, since the water was completely covered by them) met the sky there was the most intense rainbow colors i've ever seen in my life. as we got closer to iceland, the sun rose (really early), and the sky turned lighter and the horizon was kind of the color of cantelope and all the clouds were hot pink. the whole time i was listening to in rainbows par radiohead, especially the song "nude". lauren - i was in a rainbow. it was perfect. thank you. the best part about it was that i didn't even have to break out the ipod; icelandair had it in their kind of small repertoire of cds on the little computery things.

anyway, my dad slept.


this is on the icelandair flight. i especially enjoy the lady in the background. i think she thought we were weird.

pictures are taking forever to upload and flikr and picasa have small limits, so i'll put up a few pictures now and then try to get it all figured out more efficiently.

but yeah. after we landed, we kind of drove around in circles for a bit. the landscape here is beautiful and weird - everywhere you look there's steam coming out of somewhere, and there are mountains in the distance. the ground is all basalt from the volcanoes, and we actually stopped at a place where the mid-altantic ridge is visible and there's a creepy bridge across it. there's this weird lichen/mossy stuff that grows on all the rocks that my dad really likes.

we also drove out to a lighthouse we saw when we came in. then we headed for reykjavik. i think, when i get rich, i'd like a summer house here. only summer, because winters are depressing and inhospitable. everything is adorable in a not cheesy way.

another weird thing about landscape - it all looks like some sort of train set with no trains. eveything is bizarrely cute and looks like some five-year-old just kind of stuck it there.

we took a nap around noon until around very recently. it's still only 5.22pm here, so we're heading out again to eat and (hopefully...) shop while it's still light.

wait, it's almost always light.

also - icelandic is really cool, and everybody here really does also speak english. and everybody's really hot. i almost drooled in a camera shop, the guy was so attractive (don't worry kevin, they're still not attractive enough). everybody is also mostly blond. which is expected.

well, sorry for so much text, but i'm going to try to find a better image hosting site and get pictures/captions up soon.