Mom and Dad:
After our super-long day at Westmann Islands, we took a much-needed day off if “touristing.” Dad has to go back to work when we get home, so he won’t have time to have a vacation after our vacation! Plus, we needed to prepare for the longest journey of our vacation, which you’ll read about later.
We spent a lazy morning (the kids did indeed remain in bed until 9) – Charlotte was thrilled to binge-watch Full House on Netflix and Sam happily cuddled up with his Chromebook to guffaw over ridiculous YouTube videos. We had a brunch of pancakes. You know, normal Saturday morning stuff.
Mid-afternoon we drive over to the swimming pool near the President’s house in Alftanes. It boasts the largest waterslide in the country as well as the only wave pool. We all had a great time! We still can’t believe that our scaredy-cat kids are loving all these waterslides! They are getting braver by the day!
A quick trip to Bonus (grocery store), and then we returned home to try our hand at grilling Iceland’s favourite meat – lamb. Dad did a great job – everybody loved it!
Early to bed – tomorrow will be a LONG day!
Sam:
It was kind of a rest day. The main things we did were going to a pool and going to the park. We were planning to go hiking at a National park, but we got home so late the day before that we wanted to sleep.
At the pool, there was a small wave pool. Every 15 minutes or so, the waves started. The waves were pretty big and you have to jump to go over them. I also tried the sauna. I found it pretty hard to breathe in there. I got to pour some water into hot stones and it made steam.
Charlotte:
It was a pretty normal day. We played at the park first and then went to a pool. It had a ginormous waterslide! The slide was so long and it had lines that were rainbows inside. There was a very dark park where you couldn’t see anything. It scared me at first, but then it was so fun. If you go on your back, it is so fast! I went with my daddy and he was as fast as a racecar! When I went with my mom, it was still pretty fast, but Dad was way faster. My favourite part was when the wave pool was going because then I got the slide all to myself.
Sam and Charlotte take on the world! 