Darkness Falls...Never!

We made it to Reyjavik, the city that literally never sleeps! The sun supposedly sets here around 11 pm, however it never really sets. The sky remains a dark, hazy blue and then the sun rises again around 3 am. So your body never really knows what time it is...this makes the nightlife - rather the time that should be night - infinite...but fun!

Dinner last night was quite interesting and expensive! We had some of the island´s specialties. We ate part of Moby Dick...raw! It was like tuna tutaki except not as good and was dark meat. Gayle ate the mother of the horse she´s going to ride today...horse carpaccio....she claims though it was only his great aunt. We all had to try a bite but the rest of us felt a little guilty about it! We dined on Icelandic lobster...in America it would be a baby lobster! They are quite small but tasty...it took about 5 each to fill us up and we still had room at the end of the night...or rather 2 am...to eat hot dogs and donnor kebabs!

Best part so far - other than the night life - was bathing half naked in 30 degree weather in Iceland...of course the water was probably around 104 degrees! Blue Lagoon was everything we had hoped for...let´s just hope that Gayle´s hair recovers...the geothermally heated waste water tends to dry the skin and hair. But it´s worth it. We´re off to ride the distant cousins of the horse we all tasted last night. More to come later...

Mary Beth, Angela, Gayle and Kelly

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