Scrubs

Look at cutie Q in her medical scrubs! She’s so excited for the medical ignite program. Future doctor, right there! 😍

Daughters Trip: Iceland

Just returned from a 10 day (really only  8 days with travel time) adventure with Reese and Quincy. It was incredible. A dream, really. A whole week with my two older daughters was basically a bestie extravaganza. We laughed and cried and had a million new experiences together and loved it so much. I already have a very close bond with my girls but this trip together was just sacred time for the two of them, for us, and for each of them to experience some personal growth as well. It was so wonderful and the timing was perfect. He deserves his own post but I’ll just add here that Aaron deserves some kind of award for being the generous and supportive husband and father that he is. We love him so much and there really are enough ways to thank him for making this trip a reality. 

Ok just so I don’t forget to add anything I am posting mediocre, unedited lists and photos. Nothing special but it’s my practical approach to just get something  documented. I made slideshow reels on my Instagram. Here is a photo log of our trip. We visited 5 countries in 10 days. I’ll do one post for each country. 

2 Wed board flight to Chicago then red eye to Iceland.

I wanted to visit Iceland more than any other place and would have been delighted to only see this beautiful country, but when the daughters and I brainstormed our objectives for this trip one of the things important to both of them was to “cover as much of the world as we can.” They had shiny new passports and wanted to get some stamps in them. They wanted to see several different cultures and compare them. So we opted for Iceland plus a speed tour de Europe.

3 Thurs

Arrive Reykjavik rent car

Reykjavik city rainbow road, sweater shopping church, crepes, record store 

Blue lagoon 

Saw horses 

Hotel check in

Skogafoss waterfall hike 

4 Friday

breakfast at guest house 

Played with Begla the smartest dog we’ve ever met. 

Frolic in our Icelandic Wool sweaters in a meadow (for obvious reasons) 

Vik black sand beach 

Lava Cafe sandwiches and chocolate croissant 

Sweater and chocolate shopping 

Basalt Cliffs Dyrholaey and Reynisdrangar rock formations and Reynisfjara Black Volcanic beach in Vik and puffins 

Seljalandsfoss Waterfalls

Litli-Hrútur volcano hike -this was a main event for our Iceland trip. We’d hoped to hike during the 2 hours of darkness to see glowing lava but weather and unsafe volcanic gas emissions changed our plans. We went in the day instead. The lava flow slowed down the night before our arrival so we couldn’t see large eruptions unless we were willing to do a 20 mile expert level hike to the crater (with like gas masks and stuff—-that’s a no from me) but our 4.5 hour hike to see the lava fields and a great view of the smoking volcano crater was just right. Really incredible stuff. 

Return rental car and fly to London on red eye

This country was so breathtakingly beautiful. Second only to Norwegian fjords as the most place I’ve ever been. There was so much more to see and do, I hope to go back someday.