Travel day 1 down

This morning we ventured out as a family of five for a long vacation over in Europe. The day started at a normal time in the US and ended at about 2 AM local Icelandic time. The kids actually did fantastic on the journey. There was a lot of TV watching. But we made it through the whole flight without any tears! Props to the kids!

Ellie and Clair were both very vocally excited about the flight. At one point Clair looked at me with this man said this plane will never leave. But it did. 

Ellie was so excited to have unlimited access to a TV with movies, that she didn't get a lunch to go to the bathroom. On the other hand Clair was there at least six times. So I think she made up for her sister not going. 

Arriving into Iceland everybody was confused by the daylight. Ellie told me she wasn't impressed by the fact it would never be dark. I was impressed. It's been something I always wanted to experience. 

It was about a 45 minute ride into town. We had a nice driver who got all her luggage in and took us till we thought was our location. We unpacked, walk down the hall, went to open the door, and the man inside are supposedly room open the door and said how can I help you?

You can imagine at 1 AM with three kids and 15 pieces of luggage and tow, I wasn't pleased. Thankfully this was a very nice man from Boston who was happy to help us find where we needed to be. He was very friendly. Turns out our place was a block across the street. After one trip with the kids and David following up with about two or three trips to get the rest of the luggage we were finally in our. 

A little disorganized trying to unpack 10 bags and find what I needed to get the children in bed quickly, but it was accomplished in about 15 minutes. Clair was out after hitting the pillow for about two minutes. I think Max and Ellie took about five minutes. It took me a long time to fall asleep, the light sky was a bit alarming really. 

The one thing clear make sure to make Clair before falling asleep was that mommy would sleep with her and daddy would sleep on the couch. She's a funny girl. They have been telling her for the past two nights that she couldn't sleep in our bed at home because she would get to sleep with mommy on vacation. She didn't forget those promises. 

I woke up at 8 AM local time thinking it was noon. I was wrong. I walked around the Street trying to find a coffee shop, nothing was open. I finally found a small supermarket that charged me at least an arm and a leg for some berries a couple yogurts water and a little chocolate. Welcome to vacation! They always told me Iceland was expensive. Today we are off to explore the town. Tomorrow we will do the Golden Circle tour, which is supposed to take you to all the great Icelandic geographic tourist spots.