When you find the cheapest flights to Europe from Boston, you will find them on
Icelandair. You will be given an offer you cannot refuse: 6 hours to 6 days layover in Iceland for no extra charge. We took two days to see the land of ice, and wish we had taken more.
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Genevieve and Oliver (pushing Adler), world travelers |
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A momentary pause for the camera as they rush to the gate (to wait for three hours) |
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The ghost of Constance St. Clair Schuchardt, who DID come with us! |
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Today's exchange rate |
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Funny money |
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Walker and Constance onboard Icelandair |
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Really just a local flight |
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Jasper grapples the moonlike lava rock mounds at the Blue Lagoon |
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The men in the men's room, with men's robes (manly, no?) |
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It really is a BLUE lagoon |
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Chesterton enters into the warm mystery |
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Rachel loses ten years in five minutes |
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Oliver floaties |
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Genevieve floaties |
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Dadler and Adler (who did not trust the floaties to work) |
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Genevieve learns how to float on her back... |
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.... and masters it quickly |
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Then she decides to get cold, before getting warm again |
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Chesterton chillaxes with a cold drink in a warm bath, while exfoliating the past year away |
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Jasper extremely proud of his blue crushed ice beverage, and facial mask |
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Chesterton getting younger |
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Jasper entered the blue lagoon at age 11, departed at age 8 -- very impressive! |
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Dadler gets Adler warm, with one large bathrobe |
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Momler, Dadler, Adler |
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Inside the sauna room |
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Adler and Dadler, after a large buffet lunch of smoked salmon and other Icelandic goodies |
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Vivi can fall asleep anywhere |
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Mom and Dad and Adler after lunch |
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Genevieve rocks her japanese Hello Kitty shirt |
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Family after the event -- see how much younger we all look? |
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That afternoon we found a most excellent playground in downtown Reykjavik. And look how LARGE Adler's hands are! |
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Rachel gets Icelandic-wool-sweatery warm, cuz she was cold |
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The angel sleeps |
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Our Russian student friend, Ivan, meets up with us in Reykjavik, and poses in a group photo with the ghost of Constance. |
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Chesterton appreciates the branding genius behind Doritos Cool Ranch chips, which in Europe go by the name "Cool American" |
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Genevieve Schuchardt, world traveller |
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A great advertisement (for a sporting goods store in Iceland) seen at the airport. Amen to that! |
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Icelandair is everything and more we hoped for -- wonderful service, flight, and treatment of our kids |
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