Day 1: Iceland

Today’s highlights for me were meeting Elvar, Goumondier, and our Sister Troop. We got to Reykjavik and couldn’t find the Scout House because we had Elvar’s house number not the Scout House’s. But it was ok because he lives 15 houses down from the Scout House. It was pretty awesome, we got our tour and then we got a bit of time to just unpack a little bit and an hour to sleep. Thank God, we were so exhausted!

We went out to find somewhere to eat and we ended up at a pizza place and it was amazing. Coumbah, Mrs. Susan, Rosie, and I went to the store across the street to get some food for breakfast tomorrow. We walked back when we thought the pizza was done after we had finished buying our food. We then walked back to the Scout House to have our photography session with Elvar. Throughout the session, some of the girls from the sister troop came in and immediately we all bonded! It was pretty amazing.

We played games like Apples to Apples, a hand game, and Ninja. We had a very good time, especially when we were all eating the chocolate with them.  Before this trip, I had been talking to Signy, and today we bonded a lot, she is so cool and I honestly don’t think we could’ve gotten a better group.

 
We went to the ocean to take some photos and it was really cool, I’m really liking this whole experience, and I don’t think that the jet lag besides today will be bad at all for the rest of the trip.  I love our Sister troop, and I can’t wait to meet everyone else tomorrow!

--Emma

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Hello!! It’s Rosie! Today, we got in from our LONG day of travel. We all looked like we were drunk because we were so tired. After mom did the currency exchange, we took a shuttle to the car rental place. All of us got into the car and slept for the one hour it took us to get to the scout house.

Once we got to the scout house, we unpacked and went to sleep again... :) When we woke up, we were STARVING! (of course...) Most of the shops and restaurants were closed, so we had a little trouble finding food. We ended up eating at a yummy pizza place, BUT Coumbah, Emma, Mom, and I had to go shopping for more food. We found a store that was opened, but everything was extremely expensive. We ended up getting help from a lady we met at the JFK airport yesterday who was also flying to Iceland. Small world!  She took us through the store and helped us pick out special Icelandic foods. We bought groceries for breakfast and lunch for tomorrow... (eggs, cereal, milk, lunch meat, bread, chips, etc)

I came back to eat the pizza we ordered, but the pizza was gone when I walked in. Lizzy said the pizza had seafood on it (which I dislike), so she said she ate my pieces. Thank the Lord she was kidding. I ate my pizza, and we continued on with our day.  -Rosie

We took this at the ocean at 10:30pm and it's still really light outside!