The great outdoors

We've been meaning to post something, photos, news... well just anything. June has been very lazy this year. In Reykjavik the weather has been nice and sunny and despite the constant 10°C on the thermometer we've spent a lot of time in the garden playing with Luna and just watching the plants grow.
This pregnancy is taking its toll. Last week they measured my blood status and found that my iron was really low. Hopefully I´ll feel more energetic after a couple of weeks on mega-iron doses. If not, I might rent ´iron man´, just for the hell of it.

We spent the week after arriving to Iceland in northern part of Iceland with my family. The weather in the north was n' t what we´d hoped for. The first two days were ok and we went exploring in the canyon ´Jökulsárgljúfur´. Marco and I managed to hike our way into trouble. Mum, dad and Inga took the jeep for a 3km drive while Marco, Luna and I took the less traveled hiking route along the canyon. We now know why it is less traveled. After a long and strenuous hike, we came to the meeting point... only to discover that the road was on top of the cliffs...and we were stuck inside the canyon and couldn't find the path up. We came very close to call the rescue squad. I was exhausted and Marco was carrying Luna on his back, we had no food and we could already vision the headlines ´irresponsible parents rescued from a canyon´. After an hour and a half of looking for the way up, and my parents looking from the other side for the way down, my mum finally found a not so scary way down from the cliffs and we could get up, to safety, food and civilization.

It was the same week that gun crazed policemen shot two polar bears just 200km west of where we were staying. The news didn't spoke of nothing else. I woke up one night thinking... and wondering what would happen if a polar bear would walk into the cabin. After carefully planning every possible escape route from the imaginary intruder I had adrenalin pumping in every vain of my body. It took me hours to fall asleep. Hormones... not watching the news anymore, in case of overactive imagination.

Luna is great, she speaks more and more every day. Oddly enough she calls birds ´dabb, dabb´. New vocabulary also includes eye, nose, mouth, teeth and ear, in Icelandic. Plus ´bless´ which means ciao/arrivederci.

The first two photos are from the canyon (before the expedition, note the happy faces). The second two are from the playground near the cabin taken the same week. As you can see from Luna's clothes it was rather chilly. The last one is of Luna´s little sister. The sonar showed us a baby looking a lot like Luna, except for the nose maybe and the lips which look a lot bigger.