6/5/13 - 6/9/13, otherwise known as Adventures in North Iceland, Part 5

6/9/13, Sunday: Travel Day 2!

We sleep surprisingly well at the guesthouse despite our lack of sheets, then have a slow morning before heading out on the final leg of our trip back to Selfoss. Loudi takes over as DJ/navigator and gets us to our first stop, Jökulsárlón (Ice Lagoon!).

We stage another sleeping picture and some other tourists find this amusing. We have no idea what they are saying, but one of them comes up to me and wraps her shirt around my neck like a scarf and tells me to go back to sleep. We are a little confused, but this is amusing, so we go along with it and take some more pictures.

Then we try to skip stones, get stones to land on the little ice floes heading out to sea, and do a little souvenir shopping before rolling out for the next stop (aside from a quick dinner pit stop in rainy Vík).. Eyjafjallajökull!!

We decide we really want to see Strokkur (geyser!) and Gullfoss ("golden falls"), which are kind of near Selfoss, but a little out of the way, so we head that way and don't stop for any of the smaller fosses along the way. They are nice. Strokkur requires a bit more work for staging a sleeping picture. It goes off approximately every 10 minutes, but it's not exactly clockwork. This leaves me lying on the wet-ish sand for...a while. Then we shop a while at the 66 North store and head home..

..but not before convincing Christian to do this: