these titles are never very effective...

Still far behind in my musings, but certainly catching up...Here are some more photographs from Glaumbær that I forgot to include in the last post.

This is the tea room where we had Icelandic pancakes

Here is the internet's rendition of Icelandic pancakes:

I was also apparently missing a few photos from Akureyri as well. Here is Iceland-Dad and Real-Dad

And ze ladies.

These trolls await tourists on the sidewalk...luring them in with their unavoidable good looks and charming personalities, the typical tourist is hardly immune to their draw. From here, once entranced, the tourist is inexplicably compelled to walk straight into the Viking Store Giftshop. Once they cross the threshold most hope is lost...there is a 85% chance that the victim will end up buying a magnet, facetious t-shirt, volcanic ash, or canned mountain air. Tis a sad tale...

After our time in Akureyri we drove down to Snæfellsnes, a peninsula on the west coast of Iceland. We stayed at a delightful guesthouse in a town called Stykkishólmur

This is where we stayed. A wonderful woman named Greta took care of us while we were here, supplying us with a comfortable room, a soothing hotpot, and an overwhelming (but undoubtedly delicious) breakfast before we left.

We got dinner at Narfeyrarstofa, a cozy restaurant, and Nathan got himself the coziest of meals

During our meal we saw the most wondrous of wonders: a sun-burp from the sky. Nothing is more painful than spending two straight weeks in overcast, cold, wet, and windy weather and watching the sun shed its light somewhere else. If you listen closely you can hear the sound of sunshine laughing at us.

Here's a view of Stykkishólmur from Vatnasafn (Library of Water).

All of these pillars contained the melted ice of different glaciers in Iceland.

And they were fun to frolic through

Here's Nathan looking over his Kingdom.

We visited the Norwegian House, an old house that now functions as a museum. AKA, cool old stuff! And things!

Nathan and I explored the Berserker Lava Field. Berserkers were huge, super aggressive, probably crazy Norse warriors that made a mess of everything when they would enter into battle (hence, the word "berserk"). The Berserkers in this lava field have their own tale to tell. There were 2 Berserkers, brought to Iceland from Norway by a farmer looking for some extra help around the farm. They were too much to handle, so farmer #1 of course decided they would make a nice present for his bro, farmer #2. One of the Berserkers fell in love with farmer #2's daughter and asked for...no, DEMANDED her hand in marriage. Of course, farmer #2 was all like "What? No." But he didn't want to flat out refuse the poor guy because...well, I guess that wouldn't make for a good story. SO, instead, farmer #2 said that if the Berserkers could clear a path through the lava field, the Berserker could marry his daughter. Even though clearing a path through a lava field is extraordinarily difficult, the Berserkers were just like BAM, cleared! So farmer #2 was like "Damn," and decided that he still didn't want the Berserker to marry his daughter. Naturally, farmer #2 locked the two Berskers into a scalding hot sauna (cause it's Iceland! duhh), and then speared the both of them when they tried to escape. Apparently very large bones were found in the lava field a few years ago...thus making the story a bit more possible. Interesting! And so, here's Nathan walking through Berserkjahraun.

Here is some big lava! No story here unfortunately, but I could make one up? But I won't. Because I am tired.