We've arrived in Iceland!

After a shorter flight than I figured, we have arrived in Iceland. It's only a 5 hour flight and 5 hour time difference. So you leave at 8PM and arrive the next morning in Iceland at 6AM. Not a very long nights sleep, but a nap afterwards will do wonders. Unfortunately our luggage wasn't so lucky. The United Airlines folks in Wash DC wouldn't check our luggage through to Iceland. When our luggage didn't arrive at JFK in NYC, they asked "why didn't you have your luggage checked through?" grr, maybe the right hand should start talking to the left. If it had at least been on the flight after us, it still would have made it in time for the Iceland flight, but it didn't make that flight either. Now the punch line to this story is this morning when I called the United luggage desk at JFK, I was told the luggage had arrived there and had been routed to Kiev. Ummmm, that would be an interesting town to see, but I'd rather be with my luggage when it toured there. After I questioned the routing, they said oh yea, it was routed to Reykjavik. There's only one flight a day from JFK to Iceland so we'll see tomorrow morning if it was correctly routed.

We walked around Reykjavik today. It's a really nice sized city. You can see a lot of it on foot. Starting tomorrow we have a three day bus pass. The weather here is the same as DC, 30s-40s and rainy. I'm looking forward to getting my luggage so I can add some pictures to these blogs. I took some interesting ones at sunset (~5PM) of some houses reflected in the lake downtown.

Keep your fingers crossed that there will be some solar activity so I can see the northern lights.