Based on the picture could you tell where I went 🤭. This past weekend I traveled to the gorgeous country of Iceland! It was incredible and I had a lovely friend drop me off at my hotel and pick me back up before we all headed back to the airport. We landed on Friday around 4:00pm and the weather reminded me much of the lovely gorgeous weather of a midwest winter 😆. It was freezing rain and about 40 mph wind gusts as we stepped off the bus and it instantly took away my homesickness 😅. The first night I decided to go walking around Reykjavik just to explore a little bit. I found the most delicious and warming lobster soup while I searching. It was called Saegreifinn. If you are ever in Reykjavik and are looking for some stupendous bread along with a delicious bowl of soup I highly recommend going here and I recommend getting there early. I went right at 6:00 (right when they open for dinner time) and was done around 6:30 which was when it really started to fill up with people. After that despite all the cold weather I knew I needed to grab some ice cream 🫣. I went to a cute ice cream shop called Valdis and started my journey back to my hostel. As I was walking home the biggest snow flakes I have ever seen started to come down (see the blurry picture below 😆). I made it back to my hostel around 8:00 pm that night and I had a strong debate with myself if I should go try to get out of the light pollution and search for the northern lights. Unfortunately I decided against it because I was already cold and tired 😴. I also knew that I would have to wake up decently early the next morning and I had planned a northern lights tour for Saturday night anyways. Saturday morning came around and I walked over to the bus stop around 7:30 am! I was off to go see the golden circle. This trip included a stay at one of the lagoons that is geothermically heated (secret lagoon), the site of a crater, a geysir (unfortunately not pictured but I got an awesome video), a gorgeous waterfall, and one of the national parks that sits on both the North American tectonic plate and the Eurasian tectonic plate! Starting off with the crater we were able to walk all the way down right next to the water (that was frozen over). It was actually terrifying walking down the slippery stairs to get to the bottom I thought I was going to slide the whole way down instead of walking 😂. I will say once I got to the bottom I did in fact slide the rest of the way to the crater when I slipped and totally embarrassed myself 🫠. The next stop after the crater was to the secret lagoon. It was so relaxing and honestly made me so tired for the rest of the trip. It was so nice that there was like nobody there unlike some of the more popular lagoons like blue lagoon and sky lagoon. It just made the whole experience so surreal and it looked so mystical watching the steam blow over the landscape outside of the lagoon. We then made our way to one of the most active geysers in the world. It erupted about every 5 minutes so we got to see it go off a couple of times which was incredible 😮 (unfortunately no good pictures were taken just a really cool video right as it was erupting 😁). Our next stop was to an incredible waterfall... the sun was shining which then projected a rainbow 🌈 which made it seem so magical ☺️. On our way to our last stop at the national park we stopped at an Icelandic horse farm. It was so cute getting to see them and our tour guide bought a container of food to feed them which was so much fun ☺️. Our last stop was then to the national park where we saw where the two plates are starting to separate from each other creating a large gap in between the two sides of the park. This was also where they used to hold parliamentary meetings so long ago which was cool to hear the history of the brutal Icelandic traditions 🫣. Once we got back I went and ate the most life-changing hot dog of my whole life (it is in fact pictured below). I was told I had to eat skyr while I was in Iceland too which I will admit very yummy, but I don't really see the difference between skyr and regular yogurt. I had so much time after my tour ended at 6:30 because my northern lights tour was CANCELLED 😭😭. I ended up debating for hours and hours if I should go whale watching sunday morning or not. Can you guess what I decided.... I decided to go whale watching 🐳 and honestly it was the the most incredible thing I've ever done. It was the best choice I could have made especially since my tour was cancelled. We followed a humpback whale named Frodo and she CAME RIGHT NEXT TO THE BOAT. I cried (may have been from the 30 mph wind gusts straight into my eyes, but we will say it's because it was a magical moment). I also put on like a full snow suit which reminded me a lot of snowmobiling on the farm 🫣. After whale watching I met back up with my friends that were in Iceland at the same time and hit a moment of weakness when I got another hot dog 🤭. It was honestly such a great way to end the trip and everything I did was all so new to me which made it so extra super special ☺️
Iceland had probably the best bread I have ever had
This was at the secret lagoon
This was at the national park we went to (apparently they used to drown women in this river 😧)
Mario Kart anyone?
Donuts I got right before whale watching 😆
The life-changing hot dog in question
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