I went for an early morning walk and discovered this map of Iceland that we all went back to see later.
There was also a road map that reminded me of seeing the road above Skagway from a cruise ship excursion and deciding we wanted to drive to Alaska. How cool it would be to drive around Iceland!
Reykjavik is just above the first peninsula jutting out on the left. We'll be sailing around the peninsula in the night to Heimay Island in the south.
We walked around the pond you can see through the windows in the photo above and ran into the Icelandic poet Thomas Guthmundson. We had a good discussion. I think he got my point.
We left the hotel for the ship about 12:30. Coming aboard took a while as they organized to check health documents. A lady we were waiting with commented that a lot of the ships don’t bother with checking vaccinations and covid test results anymore as if she thought it was a waste of time. I refrained from saying we would not be coming on this cruise if these documents were not a requirement.
Our rooms are gorgeous!
There was some problem on the lower deck we paid for, and they upgraded us to this, complete with a bottle of champaign and a half dozen chocolate-covered strawberries.
This morning was cloudy, but since we have been on the ship it has mostly been a fine mist of rain. I guess we will leave the hot tubs on the deck for another time. We had lunch about 2. Wonderful salad bar. Dinner this evening was a two-and-a half-hour affair with John and Tammy. I had the ahi tuna appetizer, roasted butternut soup, braised scallops with bacon-wrapped potatoes and a passion fruit sorbet. Steve had the prime rib. John ordered a bottle of wine which they shared with me in payment for my proofreading his latest book.
So now we are settled in bed with the chocolate that was on the pillow when we returned to the room. The waves have picked up and I can feel a gentle swaying. Hopefully we won’t regret not being in the cheaper room lower down in the more stable part of the ship.
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