By Li

Easter morning, the Easter bunny had come. Mummy came prepared Lindt bunnies and mini eggs but it seems the Easter bunny came with Icelandic filled eggs with a various sweets (jelly beans, liquorice sweets, chewy sweets, mini chocolate sweets and some fruit rock pieces). After all the excitement, we went down for breakfast and filled our tummies up for the journey ahead.

Along our road trip to Skagafoss, there were so many waterfalls en-route and the landscape varied along the way. We stopped off to the side of the road at one point and the moss growing at the sides was very thick and bouncy. It was like walking on the rubber bouncy mat.

Further along the car trip, we saw a few cars parked to one side and decided to investigate; there was a river with some impressive rapids. There was even a few guys fly fishing in it.

First stop was Fjaðrárgljúfur Canyon, the view was pretty awesome. It’s about 100m deep and about a 1km long. Parts of it was rather narrow and the sides was steep.

We finally stopped for some food, short stint off our second planned stop – Black Sand beach, it was a very impressive pit stop. Large shopping mall and a bistro for food. Spent more time in the store than eating. Tony was very taken with all the outdoor clothing by Ice Wear.

When we pulled up into the car park, I was confused, why were we here? Then I discovered that we were going to have lunch; I was relieved as my tummy was rumbling. We found a shop called ‘Ice Wear’ as soon as William and I saw these amazing hats I immediately wanted them! They were sheep hats! After, we had lunch I was quite sad because I had wanted them but we couldn’t get them because first we had to have lunch.

For lunch William and I shared a portion of fish and chips, Mummy had lamb soup and Daddy had a classic cheese burger. Once we had finished we went into a different shop (which didn’t have the sheep hats in). Eventually we did go to the shop which had sheep hats in. Guess what? We got them! William and I now have our very own sheep hats to wear.

By Rebecca

It turns out we were walking distance from another part of Black sand beach and we took a mooch along it where the children tried to avoid the enormous waves crashing along the beach.

We decided to still stop off at our next destination and there was a very impressive cave like structure with balsat columns like you get at the Giant Causeway. Some of the columns stuck out of the cave walls.

We went to black sand beach (the sand was black all over) there were these rocks ( they looked like the giants causeway) we climbed them and daddy took some photos of us, then climbed down and me and Rebecca went to the waves and when the waves came near us we ran back and again and again.

By William

We took a slight detour to see the lighthouse at the top of Black sand beach and the views were spectacular albeit some parts were a little dicey right at the edge of the cliffs. It was lovely having the sun beaming down in the early evening approx 7pm. By the time we wrapped up, it was getting late so we went straight on to our hotel.

Wow wow wow, the hotel turns out to be right next to the Skógafoss waterfall, pretty impressive!! We had dinner in the hotel restaurant with the view of the waterfall in the background. Tony didn’t think the food was as good as the last hotel we stayed in and they certainly didn’t cater for the children as well. However, we still had a nice meal – kids and Tony had BBQ ribs and fries. I decided to opt for a lovely lamb shank.