Oh yeah...

Great Harvest Cookie break. Best darn cookies ever made!!

Snowshoes! Let the fun begin...

SNOWING! God I love these mountains!!

Paul.

Snowshoeing in the mountain forest. Sigh....

My beautiful Rocky Mountains.

Cool2...

More space shuttle landing strip.

Very cool...

Riding on the shuttle landing strip.

The Space shuttle...

Launches in about a week!

Tour De NASA

Paul and I ride 32 miles on family day at NASA. The Vehicle Assembly Building is in the background.

UFO?

Fishing down in Mosquito Lagoon just north of NASA. Is that a UFO? I didn't see it in the sky as I snapped this pic of Paul. What really goes on at NASA--Paul???

Viking serenade

What a way to spend the last night of our great adventure! How many have a "viking" sing to you? Thanks for joining us--now it's time to get back to the real world.

Last meal

Our last night in Iceland and our three week adventure. What a fabulous time we've had!!! We decided to spend our last night at the very gaudy but fun Viking Hotel and restaurant. So much fun!

Paul in the geothermal river

One last adventure

On our last afternoon before flying out of Iceland Paul and I hiked up 3 km to a geothermal river. I'm not going to kid u--we do a lot of hiking but this hike was made tougher by the sloppy conditions of the trail--as well as the fact that it was cold and drizzly. But--OMG-- the view was spectacular and the water was so warm (hot) that although it took us an hour to hike there we could only relax in the water for ~20 minutes!

Four-wheelin' in Iceland

I can't tell u how many rivers we had to forge with our trusty 4-wheel drive rental car. Paul did a great job of keeping us dry. In this crossing I decided to climb out of the sun roof and film it--I'm being tossed around the window pretty good so was glad when it was over!

Mt Hekla

Still waiting for that earthquake--just a little one. Ok so we're a little crazy. Just want our money's worth.

Close up of the volcanic eruption layer.

Sediment layers tell all

How can u not get excited about sediment? I say this knowing some of my students r now rolling their eyes. Yet these layers tell the story of a fractional history of the planet they live on. How very cool that we can touch the time of a volcanic eruption (black layers). The thickest layer was from a former eruption by Mt. Hekla.