12:00 PM Take a bus to the Blue Lagoon, a tourist hot-spot an hour away. Upon arriving, call a van to deliver us to the Northern Light Inn, nearby. Unload our stuff into our room, change into swimsuits, and walk back to the Blue Lagoon.
The Blue Lagoon is in the middle of a volcanic field. It’s centered on a big geothermal power plant: the steam condenses above ground and is routed to an artificial pool nearby. The water is bright blue, full of silica and other minerals, and can corrode jewelry. Supposedly it’s good for the skin. But not the hair.
6:15 PM Return to our kr18,000 ($240) hotel room. Supposedly this is our posh night. The hotel room looks like a Motel 6 room gone bad. Still, the location is pretty cool; there’s nothing else around for miles.
What’s a honeymoon without some diving-on-the-bed shots?
Since there’s nothing else around, we’re stuck eating at the hotel restaurant. It’s supposedly a posh restaurant, but after seeing the posh hotel room we’re a little worried.
We kill a little time in the hotel lobby area. Here Karl is perusing pictures of lava fields, because for him it’s not real unless he sees it on TV or in a book.
Dinner ends up being excellent. One of the best meals either of us has ever had. We split a lamb steak and some catfish (the fish of the day).
After dinner we go back to our posh room and live it up like the posh people do: Play Gin Rummy with a deck we bought at a gift shop, watch Old School and Buffy the Vampire Slayer on an English-speaking channel, and drink booze from flasks (imported from Boston).