Blue Lagoon

In Iceland, people told us how lucky we were to have such nice weather. We thought "yeah, it's sunny. That's nice." But then on the last day there, we found out just how lucky we had been! It was wind and rain and cold that we don't see at home until October! But, good thing we saved the best for last and spent the last afternoon in the blue lagoon! This is a hot lagoon that steams at a comfortable 38C or so, and it glows blue (literally!) because of all the silica in it! We saw it at night too and it was still glowing! When you were swimming in it, it looked like a beautiful aqua marine colour, and it was raining and cold but we were so warm in the lagoon! It is warm from geothermal-ness (earlier, on our way there, we saw mountain sides billowing out smoke and sulfur smells at geothermal hot spots), and the sand that you stepped on underneath was black ground-up lava rock sand! We were in the water for four hours before heading back to the car to do a final pack. Everything was a little wet. And we were very tired from the relaxing lagoon! But luckily we had a 5 hour flight ahead of us so we could sleep and refresh...
or so we thought...