Cruise — what fun! Onward to Iceland (23-24 June)…

Highlights and lowlights from our day of travel (23-24 June):

Arrived back in Florida and ready to get off of ship by about 6:30a.m.; said goodbye to Jim and Kay (Michael’s parents)
Picked up our rental car to take us back to the airport w/ stops along the way:
- laundry (6 people x 8 days is a lot of clothes!)
- a Target run (somehow one of our boys had grown out of his bathing suit already…)
- a FedEx stop
- Starbucks for breakfast
Flew together to JFK and then separated for our flights to Reykjavik (Michael, Findlay, and Keegan on one flight; me, William, and Tate on the other… made use of some airmiles so it worked out best this way)
Slightly stressful time at JFK wondering if we (William, Tate, and I) would make our flight on time… We had to change terminals and wait in a loooong line at security
5 hr 20 min overnight flight to Reykjavik… William, Tate, and I slept for 1-2 hours at most
Met Michael, Findlay, and Keegan at airport; they landed 30 minutes after us; Keegan greeted me excitedly… the flap on his tongue (tongue scab?) fell off and his tongue appears to be fully healed!! (Heard from our dermatologist back home; he thinks there was likely trauma to it and said to keep an eye on it but that it should be fine now. Hallelujah!)
Took a shuttle to pick up our RV… arrived at the pick up site at 8.30a.m…. 30 minutes before they opened… BRR! It’s cold outside.

HUGE temperature difference between FL/Caribbean and Iceland!!!
Michael drove us in the big RV on the small Icelandic roads with 1-2 hours of sleep to Reykjavik first to get coffee…then to Reykjavik Costco! I was still freezing from our chilly morning but he was boiling from the stress
Did some shopping for the week… oh my, Iceland is expensive! Diet time, boys!

Found our good friend Trevor in the food court at Costco. What’s he doing here?!?
(Kidding, we planned it; he’s meeting up with us a few times this year.)
Met up with our friends, the Tardifs, in the parking lot and our other friends, the Barretts, as well!!
Off to Geysir and Gulfoss! Sleepy boys

Sleepy Michael, too…He was in a lot of exhaustion-pain driving to Geysir
We visited Geysir (all of the world’s spouting hot springs are named after Geysir in Iceland!) and Gulfoss (huge waterfall)