We survived the 4.5 hour plane ride and made it to Iceland at 11:40 at night… although with how the sun was it seemed like what 8ish would be back home. After getting our luggage, buying cheap booze at the duty free stop, and going through customs we got in the cars to head out to where we are staying…a 4 hour drive. We made a couple of amazing pit stops first. 1) To a Viking ship, and 2) to the home of Valur and Gudrun, friends of John’s, who let us use their bathroom, and …. SURPRISE … fed us cream filled pancakes, pancakes rolled with sugar inside, hanging leg (awesome smoked lamb) and a jam and oatmeal cake at 2 in the morning. Their view of neighboring Icelandic farms was amazing and the experience in itself was surreal. As we ate we heard stories of the areas history, particularly the history of several churches which ended with local people stealing both the church bell and the church’s silver chalice to keep the treasured symbols in the hands of the locals. We finally got to our place at about 5:30 in the morning and to bed around 8am...
I woke up at 10 though so that I will be tired for tonight before start work tomorrow. We were able to spend the day unpacking and then taking a trip around the area to all the sites that we will work on these next few weeks. Supposedly its really cold today, but this is how I imagined it would be … its something like 43. It's beautiful here as the pictures will show and I feel like I'm in a dream. Its all not that real to me yet. Hopefully I will have more to discuss soon...
Also I will figure out how to add pictures eventually!
4 comments:
You're finally in Iceland!!! It sounds like you're off to a great start and you'll probably have so much fun you won't even miss us. We're looking forward to your updates- those of us who sit in a cubicle all day and look at forms have to live vicariously through someone. (PS- First comment!)
sounds like you guys are having so much fun already!!!! we have been kept oh so busy here down in ct, i haven't even had time to buy alcohol yet! we had a tribal council meeting and pot luck on sunday, which gets more elaborate and meaningful every time, and everyone in the field school was smudged. today steve took everyone on a walk around the reservation while me and tim tried to shoot in STPs for them to dig, and then they had like half an hour to start some before the end of the day. then we watched a history channel thing about the Pequot massacre, which didn't say one word about the Eastern Pequot...very nice editing job History Channel. I can't tell you how awesome it is to have a cook or how great a cook Veronica is....it's absolutely delicious but also much healthier than i normally eat, which feels really good. well that was a really long reply, but share with everyone else, and if you guys want i can send out a group email to keep in touch and tell you the gossip. i miss everyone!!
ps...i say group email because technically i would need permission to post any info about the Eastern Pequot or the work we're doing on a blog, so it seems like that would be an easier way to let everyone know what's going on down in this neck of the woods
Hi baby girl. I miss talking to you! Happy Independence Day! Guess all my prayers did some good. You got there safely. (EG) Learn to post pics soon. Or you can just send them by regular email. (EEG) I'm so glad you are enjoying this once in a lifetime opportunity and words cannot express how proud I am of you!
Love you and miss you,
Mom
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