Blue Lagoon

  

We head out to Gullfoss and see another waterfall….the glacier should be visible from here, but you really can’t see much today and we enjoy getting another great view of a thundering waterfall…..it feels  like every waterfall in Iceland is a natural wonder.  I guess it’s

the height, the weight of the water, but they are all spectacular it seems.  After Gullfoss, we head to our farmhouse stay, driving really slowly past Stokkur to see if we can see it erupt from the car, but no dice.  Oscar gets to hang with the ducks and the hotel keeper takes us

to see how the chickens hide in the bushes with his two dogs when we check in.  We have a huge room with a huge bathroom and it’s perfect for our last night in Iceland.  We hit a great restaurant, Cafe Mika, on the way in and had the best lamb gnocchi, fries, langostine

 ravioli to end our trip.  There’s also gourmet chocolates that we bring back to the room.  We are checked in for the flight and actually ready to go home.  It’s amazing how a week somewhere will feel like not enough, but once you reach that 12 day point….it’s time to go home. After the baths up north and Hofn’s pool, Oscar had encouraged us to book the Blue Lagoon before we fly out.  We

don’t fly out until 4pm and the Blue Lagoon is right by the airport.  It’s not as expensive as we had thought and you get a towel, silica mask, and Oscar is free.  We booked it several days ago because the tickets sell out fast.  We’ll get to spend a couple

of hours there before our flight, but the incredible fog the morning we’re flying out makes driving a pain.  At least it has nothing to do with the manual car and the roundabouts once we hit Reykjavik feel like not a problem now. I'm mindful of the 

speed cameras around the Blue Lagoon this time (probably have a 1000 euro ticket waiting for me) and we head in on the windiest, rainiest day you can imagine.  Oscar has to literally push himself into the wind to get to the doors.  But once we get in,

shower, change and get out into the Lagoon, it's magical.  Don't care about the rain, don't care about the wind, you're in a warm cocoon of silky blue water.  At Myvatn, we were told to take off copper and silver jewelry because those minerals would damage it.  Here, we're told to leave conditioner in our hair after showering because of the minerals.  We put on our silica masks, check out the entire lagoon to find the hot spots and our favorite spots, get our drinks that are included and just enjoy.  They even have Krap for Oscar and he's happy about that.  A perfect way to end a great time in Iceland.  Especially when we're a family of 3 with maybe 150 other people in the Lagoon.