ok! sorry about the commenting problem, but now anybody - even those who have no google/blogger account - can now leave comments. also, i haven't been being notified of comments, which is also fixed. so thanks, harry and lauren! lauren - of course we will come here. and yeah, we do just kind of drive around and stop at cool places. but usually it's to or from places we were going, like yesterday, we planned to go to the gullfoss (gold falls, the big waterfall) and the geysers.

today, we went to the mountains as a side-trip on the way back to reykjavik from the blue lagoon (which was awesome). it would be nice to come back with friends to enjoy the nightlife. maybe that'll happen when we all have more money and the dollar isn't worthless.

it's weird how few american tourists are here - most of them are french and german. most everybody else is icelandic. and yeah, it's weird how homogeneous they are. it's also weird how many young adults there are... our-age people. they do construction. they work in all the stores. they work in restaurants. where are the adults? sometimes we see old people, and sometimes (rarely) there are middle-aged people. where are the rest of them? it's very strange. it's also very strange that everybody is so blond, mostly. weird weird. but cool. i kind of want to find and icelandic pen-pal or something. but that might be weird, to request that of a random person.

we went to a chinese restaurant tonight for dinner. it was the first one i'd been to that actually plays chinese music. and has chinese decor all the way - there were no french posters. i was also sad because there were no fish. there are always fish tanks!

also, why are americans so much more self-conscious in different places than eurpeans? it's bizarre, a mon avis. sometimes it is fun when other tourists mistake you for a native. that happened in france too, eh lauren?

anyway. i might weed out pictures later, as there are lots of pictures (protip: read- might usually means no in situations such as these). but i hope you enjoy them, even if there are hundreds! and if you were wondering, i upload all these and write the posts before dinner, usually, while my dad is sleeping/piddling around/taking a shower and i am bored.

my dad's pictures:


my pictures:



direct link here. from now on i'll just have it linked on the right side of the blog.