Cain Manor

We rented a 4×4 camper. Basically it’s a Dodge pickup with a camper on top that should comfortably sleep Greg and I and still give us room to cook and hang out. It’s about the same price as a hotel room per day would be with the added benefit of being mobile. Plus, we can cook on it, etc.

We pick it up in Reykjavik on the 29th and have 7 days to explore the island before dropping it off at the airport on the 6th, hours before we fly back to NYC. There are plenty of campsites around so I don’t think we’ll have any trouble finding places to park and sleep as well as get showers, picnic, etc.

The next step is boxing up warm clothes and hiking stuff along with my wedding dress and a suit for Greg to ship to the hotel in Reykjavik. One less thing to pack and schlep on the plane with us. Plus our 3 days in Connecticut will no doubt be hot and I don’t want to open the suitcase looking for a swimsuit to have my North Face parka fall out. With global warming clearly in affect it could be quite mild in Iceland. But certain parts of the Island are known to be wetter and colder than others. I’m looking forward to plenty of dips in the many geothermal pools.

We are starting to get things sorted out. We’ve had our marriage papers now for several weeks and finally filled them out. They were so helpful to include a blank document in which each line had been numbered with the corresponding directions for each space in English. Otherwise we’d never had known what to write. So the forms are filled out. The nice thing is that we can have our best man and best woman witness the papers for us here. They don’t have to be there with us in Iceland. They sign off on the letters of honour.
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We leave Seattle on Friday, June 22nd on good ol’ Jet Blue. I love the red eye flights. Seriously, you waste no daytime flying. We land in NYC the next morning. Thank god for my parents who have graciously offered to pick us at at the crack of dawn and escort us out to Connecticut. We’ll stay with them for several days enjoying the beach, some time in Manhattan, etc., before heading to Iceland on the 25th. We arrive in Iceland on the 26th and head back to the States on July 6th. This will give us a nice long time to expolore.
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