Home Again

27052019

Last morning of the vacation. Waking up early enough to pack, and eat the last of our snacks we headed out to the airport.

We had to take a train to the airport, a 20 minute ride, but the train station was a 20 minute walk from our apartment. We all survived the walk.

We got to the airport with enough time to try and find food, but all of the food we wanted was on the other side of passport control, we ultimately didn't eat anything because we kept going to the place only to realize it was the other side of a glass wall.

We did however find the fancy licorice we were looking. We picked up some of the Sea Buckthorn, the Berry and then some of the smoked licorice for my parents. So the airport wanderings weren't a total loss.

3 hours later we were back in Iceland, eating very expensive airport food, and then hurrying to passport control to get home. Laura got red-lighted at the portal, and then we got hurried along.

My parents flight was 30 minutes before mine, so I hugged them goodbye and waited around for Laura to catch up. Fortunately she did ultimately make it to the flight, all-be-it without her hair powder. I am guessing she was randomly selected for additional screening, and then the bag of un-labeled white powder caused some additional hang up. We made it to our flight.

Laura and I watched movies together by timing the press of the "start" button on our respective in-seat entertainment systems. We watched A Star is Born, which means not 24 hours later Laura is still humming Lady Gaga songs, The Favorite, which was cool because we were just wandering around 18th century palaces, so to see them in a contemporary setting was neat, and The Crimes of Grindelwald which disappointingly ended on a blatant money-grab to get you to see the sequel.

that ate up most of our 7 hour flight, we watched the mountains pass for the last leg of the flight, landed back in Seattle, took a Lyft home (on sale because of memorial day, we saved $4!) and got our typical post-travel Vietnamese food. This time i got 2 Banh Mi, Laura got her usual Pho and Spring Rolls, and we still walked out of there for less that $25.

We then slept with our humidifier on full blast, with our own blankets, in our own bed. it was glorious.