I’m completely excited to be going back to Iceland to visit for the first time since I lived there two years ago! (Wow, how time flies…) Though I’ll only have a week this time, I’m super pumped to be going with my brother!!
Since that amazing summer, I’ve thought about Iceland and the friends I made pretty much every day, and have been looking forward to the chance to share that piece of my life with my family and friends. Garrett has given me the chance to do this by rearranging his summer of European travel to include a stop in Iceland on his way back home.
When he first asked me if I thought we could find him a place to stay for a few days so he could visit Iceland, I immediately thought of the one and only Lena Dis who (very awesomely) came to visit me here last summer! She very kindly said that she would find a place for Garrett to stay, no problem…then suggested that I come too. Of course my first reaction was a “yea–ooook, Lena. I can’t just come to Iceland…” But after thinking about it, I realized maybe I could? I did have enough time to save some money and I worked out a deal with my parents for them to (so generously) pay for part of my flight costs. Additionally, Lena was offering us a place to stay so there wouldn’t be hotel costs, etc. At that point, the decision was simple: of course I would go!
This will be the first trip Gar and I will go on together (sans mom and dad) and hopefully won’t be the last! (Philippines 2012 + Carlee, here we come…) I can’t wait to show him where Lee, Casey and I lived, the fields we played on, of course the unbelievable landscapes, make him eat rotten shark/Skyr/lobster soup/waffles from the Waffle Van, drink Brennivin/Viking beer/my favorite mojitos, and to meet some of the amazing people I get to call my friends!
Stay tuned for some more fun adventures…
