Blue Lagoon Spa

This is the same day we arrived in Iceland but it feels like a new day because we napped. I made everyone wake up at about 2pm (7am our time) because I was determined to make it to the Blue Lagoon Spa today. We had a bus transfer scheduled for earlier in the day but I emailed to reschedule it for later but forgot that they wanted us to be there 30 mins before the scheduled time. I should have said the time to have the bus come get us and not the time I would be there. My fault but it was fixed as we caught the next bus and still made it to the spa on time.

We have arrived at the Blue Lagoon Spa! It is a man made lagoon which is a side effect of the geothermal power plant's run off and the water is renewed every day.

Arrived in Iceland

Well, today was pretty awesome all considering. We arrived on time in Keflavik (Iceland's airport), cleared customs, picked up our luggage and made it to our bus without any problems. We arrived around 7am Icelandic time or about 12am our time.

Keflavik Airport and a view from our bus on the way to our apartment.
It is about a 50 minute bus ride from the airport to downtown Reykjavik. 

Off to Iceland

I just was looking back at the last post here and I stopped in the middle of our trip to Oregon. I just ran out of steam posting I guess! So now ... here I am at 5:30am ... the only one awake and thinking ... what should I do? Hmm, maybe start blogging again? Yeah. That is a good idea. The only problem is that I usually do this at the same time I am going through my photos so I can remind myself what we have done. Well, Fredrik bought this new fancy camera and I don't know how to get the photos off of it yet. Hmmm ... bugger. Here goes nothing!

How far back should I go? Well, there was an exciting thing that happened on the way to the airport on Thursday July 30th. We left in plenty of time because the Blue Angels were scheduled to practice at the same exact time we would be driving to the airport. They close down one of the floating bridges so they can practice for the air show at Seafair this weekend. This causes traffic of course as all the bridge traffic gets redirected to the freeway we will be traveling on.

So, we are on the freeway and yes there are a lot of cars and it gets REALLY slow at the I-90 interchange. Expected. Well, as we are sitting there waiting in the sea of cars on the freeway ... all the sudden a tight formation of the Blue Angels appears right before us and zoom off to the east over the bridge. Unexpected! Good thing we were already at a standstill because if not, I might have ran into someone. Whew! Of course, there was no time to snap a photo!

There was nothing else really noteworthy on our plane ride. No one slept as usual. We forgot the melatonin at home even though my husband ran to the store late last night specifically to pick some up. I have a short video of the northern lights that displays at night in our airplane. That is pretty much all for today.