Sunday, May 17 — Since arriving in Iceland, we haven’t been sleeping well. It didn’t get dark until around midnight, and it got light again at 0300. While the hotel did have blackout curtains, the curtains exactly fit the inside of the windows — which meant there was a ring of light all the way around the perimeter of the window. We’ve been having a hard time falling asleep/staying asleep while it was still light out.

This morning, no one was in a hurry to get moving. Eric and Keith went to the spa for a short while. We finally headed out at 1045. We waked back downtown, taking different streets that were closer to the waterfront. Check out this cool ship that we got a glimpse of.

While there were still plenty of adorable buildings on our route, we found these streets less charming since they had quite a lot of modern, blocky buildings. One of the things that we were really excited about was that the leaves had begun to come out the trees. We’ve never seen spring happen in real time before. We marveled that the trees had been barren on Wednesday, and,only four days later were full of new life.