By Rebecca

It was an early start to the day. We got up at 4:00am and we set of at about 5:00am. This was the first step on our 2 week adventure!

When we arrived at Heathrow, a few things went wrong. Firstly, we went through the barrier that we weren’t meant too. Fortunately, we finally found the the right passage, that was one problem solved. Unfortunately, the person who was meant to pick our car up was late; because he went to terminal 3 when we were at terminal 5. It was really annoying because as the man was late I didn’t get breakfast at the airport.

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Finally, we were on the plane! Yay! I was happy with my odd breakfast that Mummy had made me; sushi. I started watching ‘Matilda’ but then Daddy said that I had to go to sleep. But I did get to finish the film when I woke up. As we were approaching the island, I saw some amazing scenery from the air. When we got off the plane I was taking my first steps in Iceland.

The car we (Daddy) had hired was a Toyota RAV4 (it is very big but I don’t like the smell of it). But the rest of it was very nice (except from the dents in it) our first destination was ‘The Blue Lagoon’.

I was soooooo excited I felt like I was about to burst (but I didn’t). Mummy, Daddy and William and I got these cool wrist bands William’s was yellow, mine was red and Mummy and Daddy’s were blue these were are passes into the experience of a life time!

We had to get changed, then we went down a slope into a cloudy, white/blue water (we called it milk); once you opened a door that was partly in the water and the top of it was out of the water it got even better. It was so weird because your body was warm due to the thermal vents in the water but your head was cold because you are in Iceland! It definitely a experience to remember.

There was a awesome cave thing about 10 feet away from the door. Inside of the tunnel like cave we got our first sighting of silica on rocks it was strange because the rocks had a band of white at the point where the water met the surface. They would look like mountains to ants but obviously nothing could survive in the water hence the name the vikings gave it which translated into poison lake.

One of my favourite things about the lagoon was a thing called ‘silica’ it was such a strange feeling when you put your feet on the bottom of the lagoon and felt all of this squidgy slime seep in between your toes. Also, we got the opportunity to have a lump of goo (which was silica) and spread it over your face (which when I put it like that doesn’t sound very appealing but I was really excited about it).

After that we (Daddy) drove about 3 hours to a hotel called Hotel Bifrost (with some funny symbols above some of the letters) when we arrived the man asked us when we would like dinner and then Daddy asked where the nearest town was turns out it was 39 km to the nearest town, so it was decided that we were going to have dinner in the hotel.

Daddy and William’s room was 416 and Mummy’s and my room was 417. When we saw the corridor Daddy described it as ‘a scene from when the Berlin Wall existed’ which I wasn’t very happy about because that was where we where going to sleep (no not in the corridor in the rooms) but at least the rooms were kind of modern. From My room the was quite a strange view, one house for some reason had obsidian (for if you didn’t know is volcanic rock also if you didn’t know that don’t worry because Daddy didn’t know either, not that helps) ; another roof was covered in grass Daddy being Daddy asked how they cut it (he is paranoid about his grass at home if you didn’t know) but I must admit i did think it was strange.

Soon we went down for dinner and I my jaw dropped when I saw the prices (okay maybe I am exaggerating a little bit) but after the discussion about the prices we finally made up our minds.

William chose pizza (which consisted of: cheese, pepperoni and green olives), Mummy chose confit duck, Daddy chose Icelandic lamb and I chose local salmon (which I know sounds very boring but it was very yummy).

After, we had finished William and I shared a chocolate mousse cake and I found it very funny when there was whipped cream and William put some in his mouth (not knowing what it was) and then looked like he was about to be sick luckily he wasn’t.

Today was a brilliant day but ‘The Blue Lagoon’ was defiantly the best thing I have done in Iceland so far (though I have only been here for 1 day so I doesn’t really count). I hope all of my other days will be just as fun.

Log on tomorrow for tomorrow’s.