Finally Going to Iceland!

We get to spend the day around here and spend a second night in our guest house!   It’s great to not have to back up everything every morning!   We have a breakfast voucher for the Skalinn Diner, a 50s themed eatery with a jukebox and Betty Boop and even a Frish’s Big Boy (although they may not know who he is!).   Outside our bedroom window We don’t have to leave until ten and the diner is just around the corner.   They offer lots of American breakfast choices and our voucher is good for breakfast on the menu and unlimited coffee and tea.   We choose the English breakfast with two fried eggs, two hash brown patties, two slices of toast, four strips of bacon, a huge sausage, and baked beans!   It’s 2400 Kroner (a little less than twenty-four dollars!) and we’re getting our money’s worth!   We won’t have to eat again until dinner! Finally!  An architect who understands that there should be twice as many ladies' rooms...

What a remarkable night that was!   We didn’t even have to stay up until three to see the Lights!   I scramble up the TALL steps to my “upper bunk” and sleep like the proverbial. I even wake up early, refreshed and excited to see what today holds!   It’s an easy one and Hildur doesn’t care when we leave! Sigi brings our HUGE breakfast basket around nine forty-five and that marvelous dog is with him!   He leans against my leg and eventually lies down on my feet!   I love dogs!   (Just too lazy, and travel too much, to have another one!). Everything you can imagine is in the basket, and we get a further lesson in how sheep farming is done Iceland.   They will be setting out tomorrow with six other farmers to gather all the sheep.   They have a cabin they stay in because the treks, by horseback, are usually two days long. Hildur and Sigi have three children - a daughter ten years old, a son fourteen and another son w...