Today is a sea day and we have no planned activities. Well, not exactly. I want to go to a lecture on Greenland at 10am, Karen has laundry to do, we have a Mariner's luncheon at 1pm and our passports need to be picked up at 3:30pm. Add to that breakfast, lunch, gala dinner and the 8pm show and we actually have a pretty busy day ahead of us. It's breakfast as usual but I'm carrying my IPad with me all day so I can use any free time to catch up on my bl...

Today is our second day in Reykjavik and we are touring the southern part of Iceland. We had made no plans for the day. Karen didn't want to go into the Blue Lagoon, a heated pool in Reykjavik noted for its healing qualities and other tours we had considered would not be completed before our departure time of 4:30pm. I figured we would just either hang out on the boat or take a three hour tour of the city by bus. A couple of days ago, one of our travelers fro...

Today we will be on a different tour than most of our fellow passengers. I stepped out of my comfort zone a little when I booked it. It's the same "Golden Circle" tour that most of the local companies and Holland America offer with the addition of a snowmobiling adventure on a glacier. There's no way a big tour bus is going to make it up to the glacier for snowmobiling so we will be traveling in a monster truck. Yes, a big four-wheel drive can with huge t...

This morning we're off the ship and in the parking lot by 9:45am. We're on the northern coast of Iceland in the town of Isafjordur, just 34 miles south of the Arctic Circle. We find our tour group in the lot and board the 20 person, 4-wheel drive bus. A young girl from the local university is to be our guide for the day but we are still missing 4 more people so we wait. At 9:10, she finally gives up on the the other four and off we go. Our guide begins ...

This morning we are to meet Mary, our tour leader from Cruise Critic, at 9:45am in the Ocean Bar where our group of 8 will assemble and leave the ship for a day long excursion. We gained another hour of sleep back last night which is nice. We have our breakfast in the Lido and head to the the Ocean Bar, stopping by the room to drop off my milk for later tonight. Milk is difficult to get any other time but breakfast and I like to have cookies and milk in the eveni...