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Iceland 🇮🇸

Beautiful Iceland!!!  Words cannot explain...and pictures don't nearly capture the beauty!!! We drove the vulcano path that erupted last year, we also swam in the Blue Lagoon!  

The Blue Lagoon is a geothermal spa in southwestern Iceland.  The water's milky blue shade is due to its high silica content. It comes out of the earth at around 400 degrees,  but they moderate it and keep it at a cool 105 degrees!  We floated in it for 4 hours. It's very high salt content

We ate fresh fish at a fishing port, Kafee Duus.

Then we took a drive up the coast to the point of the peninsula 

There a purple lupine flowers everywhere here!  And.... everyone owns horses.  I'm trying to figure out what they do with them.  

We just checked into our flight.  Nobody checks passports here in Europe.  We flew from Austria to France and then Fance to Iceland,  and until Iceland nobody cared.... then...Alex and i got flagged in Iceland,  and we got interigated by 3 different immigration officers!!!  😳

This was TSA...

Everyone in Iceland is overly sweet and nice!!!  We are just chilling in airport.   I'm very windburned.  The wind is so strong you have to be careful when you open your car doors or it will blow off... that isn't a joke.  They get 90mph winds pretty commonly here.  

Paris, France 🇫🇷

Well, we did a solid Paris today and now Alex never has to come back to this swamp because he has seen it all!   

It has been hot, and the French don't believe in AC.  They don't have it in old buildings or new buildings,  not on their subways, hotels or restaurants. It was 98 degrees today! AC is a luxury we are certainly missing and will most definitely appreciate when we go home.  ...one other notable mention,  a bottle of water is $6. Just 2 cents for the memory banks. 😅

BUT...we had a great day....

Today we did the Louvre Museum...

This is the largest painting in the museum... it's a depiction of The Last Supper. 

AND we saw the Mona Lisa!!!!

...and we also saw The Broken Pitcure....funny how the original is round and not rectangular. .  This, if you recall, hung in Dads house for years and years.  

Next we did The Palace of Versailles.   OMG I've never seen anything like it...stunning, overwhelming,  massive and just...wow...

And our flight to Iceland was canceled,  so we fly out in the morning.   Meanwhile,  we are at the airport Hilton ...a little USA away from home.

Alex comment of the day... today was an eye opener. 

My thoughts...I'm so excited to be back in the US where tap water is free, bathrooms are free, and where we have AC.  

And....last night in our sleep sacks 🤞

Vienna Austrai --> Paris France 🇫🇷

Mostly a travel day from Austria to France.  We arrived in France.  Vienna was one of those airports that you get you get to walk up outdoor stairs like the president. 

Before I start my blog let me remind you how much I dislike Paris. 👎 

We are staying at the Notre Dame hotel across the street from the Notre Dame Cathedral.   This is old town Paris, so it is a boutique hotel.  It was built in the 16th century!

We toured...just got back...we are super tired... 

ALEX said it was amazing to see the architecture and the night life.

For me the best part was seeing Alex's face when he spotted the Eiffel tower. 

Vienna Austria Day 2 🇦🇹

A very busy day indeed....

Breakfast had typical European pastries...

We went and saw the crazy cool architecture of an architect named Hundertwasser.  

We went to the Belvedere Palace.  Yesterday we saw the summer home, today we saw the winter home.  As a reminder this is where Maria Antoinette grew up as a young girl before marrying and moving to the Palace of Versailles in Paris. 

The palace is now an art museum that has a ton of Gustave Klimt art work, including the very famous "The Kiss"

All of the palaces have this parquet flooring

We stopped off at an amusement park where Alex tried out some of tge crazy rides they offered, including the human sling shot! 

We went to the Art History museum and tourned a nights exhibition 

And of course I saw my company,  again, 

We are exhausted and done touring for the day.  We fly to Paris tomorrow.