Sharks Abroad

The sky needs some lotion 'cause it's so ashy

Posted by Anne , Monday, May 31, 2010 12:46 PM

(The church service in Skalholt)

So Sunday started out pretty exciting. I didn't end up going to breakfast because I woke up later then I thought but I did get ready for church. We went just up over the hill to the white church and we were some of the few people that were there for the service. For Iceland, the summer months are harvest/farming months and many people don't go to church so that they can spend more time getting things ready for the winter months ahead. So...it was the group of 10 Meredith Maulers, our two Professors, an older Icelandic couple, the priest's wife and son, and two other American tourists. It was pretty low-key they sang a couple songs in Icelandic and even said some of the service in English and sang a song in English so that we would feel included. Afterwards as we were ushering out we found out that the two women were from Indiana and it was a daughter and her 86 year-old mother, Laurita. Laurita was a hoot and a half and she even said that her daughter wanted her to visit Iceland "before she died". After church there was lunch which was lamb, salad, pepper soup, and homemade bread (a staple here). See below!

After that we went on an adventure to see Gulfoss (Goal-foss)(One of Iceland's massive waterfalls, kind of like Niagra Falls but bigger...ish) and after that they Geysir (Gay-sir) which is a pretty regular geyser that occurs every three minutes. Gulfoss was beautiful and so massive that it was hard to take it all in because everything that kept happening was new and different.

(me and amanda at gulfoss)

((the falls (gulfoss) itself))

The geysir was also really really amazing and i'll have to put up some moving picture videos that I made of it once I figure out how to do that because I don't have any of those individual pictures edited i'll have to do it later. BUT we did see the 'eye of iceland' which is a BEAUTIFUL color of blue,piping hot hot spring. See beloooow!

And that image was pretty much unedited and it was THAT BLUE. Which was awesome. After that we headed back to Skalholt and ate dinner which consisted of a mango/pineapple/coconut soup with whipped cream, a salad with chicken and coconut dressing, and THE MOST DELICIOUS chocolate cake with chocolate ganache and chocolate mousse with cherry sauce and whipped cream. Which our friend Steinunn made and she's awesome and so sweet and speaks surprisingly good English! see below.

(jealous? 'cause you should be)

After that we pretty much spent the night in and discussed what was going on this week and planning a trip to Reykjavik this weekend which should be really really exciting and we'll get a real chance to see Icelanders in their environment/capital city.

Not much else has happened though we did have class today (monday) and most of this stuff happened yesterday (sunday) but anyways, i'll update again soon!

hope you guys are having an awesome time at home :)
-Anne.

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