The view is the absolute best to wake up to! Pictures don't do it justice at all.
I am so glad we decided to start our Icelandic adventure in a rental house and not hotel. We enjoyed sleeping in and waking up on our own schedule, making breakfast and slowly starting our day. When we went grocery shopping we kept seeing this yogurt called Skyr, yall it is so creamy and delicious. We have several versions of it in America as well, so we have stocked up now that we are home.
Our rental house also had this cute little playset the twins loved.
We went on walks around the lake and enjoyed exploring! Ryan got this picture of me taking a picture haha!
We loved this little area that had benches and a picnic table out on the island.
Each day we spent several hours in the car, but we had great playlist and lots of beautiful scenery to keep us occupied.
Iceland is known for being the home to vikings and the twins found so many fun toys and dress up stuff at each stop. Don't worry we only let them get one toy each and it had nothing to do with vikings!
The Kerio crater not far from the house we rented. Since it is just the beginning of spring it was still frozen over, but still massive and impressive! We sat here for a while explaining to the kids this used to be a volcano and how over a long time transitioned into a massive hole in the ground.
We saw dozens of waterfalls throughout our adventures, but these were some of our favorites. Seljalandfoss was tall and popular. Unfortunately the ground was frozen so we were not able to hike the stairs that lead to the back of it.
Not far from there we went to a more unknown waterfall called Gljufrafoss, and that was our favorite. It took us a while to figure out how to go under this mountain and through a cave to get right to the base of the waterfall.
We found it! And found one other couple there who happened to be on our plane and recognized us. They were not going to attempt wading through a stream until they saw our 5 year old twins did it haha!
This is us inside the cave that is at the base. We got absolutely soaked, but had a dance party and just stayed there in awe of being at the base of a waterfall for a while.
On our way back to the car we sat in the sunshine trying to dry off and had a snack! We found fish soup (sounds gross, but it is in fact delicious) and lobster soup at every stop!
Another fun moment was when we got to Skogafoss there was a double rainbow!!! How cute are these twins under a twin rainbow?
We of course continued to stop and feed horses.
When we made our way to the souteastern side of the country we stayed a night at the Foss hotel.
Iceland is full of waterfalls and we would often see them just driving down the road. Ignore the terrible singing haha!
Next up on our Southeast adventures was Jokulsarlon Glacier Lagoon and Diamond beach. Again pictueres can't even begin to captures to magnitude and beauty of this place!!
Ellie and I found some small diamonds on Diamond Beach:)
So on one side is the glacier lagoon and the other is diamond beach where all the parts that break off the glacier wash up on shore.
Here is us at the actual glacier lagoon.
After this we drove back to the southwest part of the country to a town called Vik. When driving in Iceland the landscape changes drastically and quickly. One minute you feel like your on Mars and then the Swiss Alps and then Colorado and then Ireland...it is crazy! We did a little adventure ride around Lomagnupur mountain. I even drove a stick shift for the first time!
We stopped at the moss covered lava rocks to take it in and snap some pics.
When we made it to vik we went to a local pool and let the kids swim and then played soccer on a nearby field.
We read that the weather can change in a minute in Iceland. This was the only time we experienced this. It was blue skies and sunny when we went to the pool and by the time we left it was snowing sideways!
We shopped and checked out this little town before showers and dinner at our hotel. We had a loft style condo here and the kids loved sleeping upstairs in the loft.
There are way too many pictures and details to cram it into one or two posts....up next our final few days and adventures!!! We may have saved the best for last too!
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