Monday, May 25, 2009
This is my first morning in Berlin. This place is truly amazing; it’s like a German LA. We literally went round the entire city yesterday through public transit. I’ve come to realize that I may love traveling, but I hate the traveling part of traveling. Last Thursday was when this trip began. WE had a two hour bus ride to Atlanta. The airport there went over smoothly we did arrive about an hour and twenty minutes early, so we were able to walk around and eat and what not. Once we got to NYC, we met up with the Choo Choo Kids director, Steven Malone, and then we got three van taxis’ to take us to JFK. Yeah, btw, New York City, kinda sucks year around. But anyway, at JFK we boarded Icelandeir Airlines. That flight went by very quickly mostly because I slept, but also because Icelandeir is a very classy airline, and each seat had its own menu of movies to chose from. We arrived in Iceland the next morning, making our travel time almost twenty-four hours
Iceland was beautiful. Just driving out of the airport, was a sight. The landscape here is so amazing. It can be flat for miles and miles then out of nowhere there will be a hill the size of Signal ‘Mtn.’ of volcanic ash. At first I thought I was looking over fields of grass, but then I realized that it was looking over fields of dried lava, with moss growing on the rocks. Our first stop was the Blue Lagoon. From miles away we could see he steam rising from the power plant. When they say Blue Lagoon, they mean Blue Lagoon. The water was sky blue, and it was not reflecting the sky because the sky was cloudy, as it was for most of the trip. I water was warm and relaxing. The Blue Lagoon is rated the number one spa in the world, and although I none of the spa treatment, I felt completely different once I got out, minus the cold. We stayed at the Viking Hotel, and my roomies were Zach and John. Funny story, Zach broke his bed. We were able to relaxing at the hotel for about three hours, and John, Rachel and I walked around the town we were in for about an hour. Iceland isn’t that cold in the summer, more like breezy fall in Tennessee. The group later went to downtown Reykjavick where we were free to form groups and walk around. We were told that the shops were closed, but would reopen and six. That gave us some time, so we went to this restaurant called Oliver. It was very cool, and kinda old fashion new agey if that makes since. After the disappointment of finding out the shops closed at six, we went to a mini theater to watch two films on volcanoes. I, along with everyone else, slept.
The next day was my seventeenth birthday. I didn’t want to say anything because I missed my family, but Shelbi got me the new Eminem CD, an Eminem shirt, and season two of Scrubs. That Birthday was like no other. We had a bus tour of the island and our first was at the North America Europe continent line. They picked that spot as the line because it was at the place where the tectonic plates are splitting apart at the amazing speed of one inch a year. It was a cool vast place. Our next stop was the Golden Circle, the second biggest waterfall in the world. After that we went to the gazers. The word “gazer” actually comes from one the gazers named Geysir. The word Geysir means to grow quickly in Icelandic. We were there to see one of the gazers shoot four times. Then we stopped in downtown Reykjavík again. The next morning we woke up and flew to Berlin.
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