Iceland: The Land of Fire, Ice, and Tornados? (Day 6)

Day 6 Near Reykjavik Activities: This morning we are on our way to go glacier climbing but the weather is crappy switching between rain and hail.  We stopped to go to the bathroom before beginning our trek up on the glacier and YALL THE BATHROOM AT THE BASE OF THIS GLACIER CRACKED ME UP. As…

Iceland: The Land of Fire, Ice and The Pit of Misery, Dilly Dilly? (Day 5)

Day 5   Activities:  I feel like Iceland is basically just a lot of water in different forms when you go in the winter.  I mean they’ve got the Atlantic Ocean, Ice, Glaciers, snow, fog, clouds, waterfalls, hail storms, geysers… need I say more? Well today we saw at least 8 of those 9 water…

Iceland: Land of Fire, Ice, and More Ice (Day 4)

Day 4 Near Hofn—->sveitarfélagið hornafjörður glacier—-> Hella Today we prepare ourselves to go ice caving.  None of us are entirely sure what that means, but I’m so excited even though we have total cloud cover and dense fog.  Who needs to see anyways? We start our tour and our guide has a monotone voice and…

Iceland: Land of Fire, Ice, and Northern Lights (Day 3)

Day Three Egilsstaðir—>Djúpivogur—> Near Höfn East Coast of Iceland Activities Today was an extremely chill day with no real “activity” scheduled.  Therefore, Halli gave us the ability to tell him to stop on the side of the road at any point we wanted pictures.  So basically, that is all we did all day long is…

Iceland: Land of Fire, Ice, and Sulfuric Fumes (DAY 2)

Day Two Akureyri —>Goðafoss—->skútustaðahreppur—->Myvatn Nature Baths —->Egilsstaðir (North Iceland to North East Iceland) Stories I had the absolute best night of sleep ever because yesterday was the longest day ever.  From an overnight flight that I didn’t sleep on, riding horses, spending all day in a car, and freezing your butt off can really take…

Iceland: The Land of Fire, Ice, and Furry FLOOFS (Day 1)

DAY ONE Reykjavik —–> Hraunfossar—–>  Akureyri Southwest iceland to North Hello interwebs! There are so many parts of this trip, both good and bad, that are all working in unison to create the beauty of traveling with my family.  I think that the best way to approach this would be to tell my point of…

The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood

I spent this summer in Russia and had some time to tour around Moscow and Saint Petersburg.  Russia is known for its iconic buildings such as the Kremlin or Saint Basil’s Cathedral right in the city center of Red Square in Moscow.  However, my favorite building we saw was The Church of the Savior on…