Hello from Iceland!

Just dropping in to say Hi!

Hello my friends! My name is Socks the sock monkey. I am currently travelling around the world with my human family Ally, Meg, Mark and Lisa - for a whole year. I will be sharing my travels with you through this blog and when my journey is complete I hope to come and visit you in your classrooms. 

Our first stop on our world tour was Iceland. Iceland is known for its geothermal hot pools, waterfalls and glaciers. This past week we explored these things and much more.

 

My human family!

One of our first stops in Iceland was a geothermal hot pool. Geothermal hot pools are like pools in Canada except they are warmed by energy in the ground. One of the main hot pools in Iceland is called the Blue Lagoon. The Blue Lagoon is amazing because the water is bright blue. I could not go in the water because I did not want to get by monkey ears wet. My family told me that the pool was very warm.

 

I took this picture of the Lagoon while my family was slipping into their bathing trunks.

I chose a massage while Ally had a silica mud facial!

Another really popular attraction in Iceland is the stunning waterfalls. Since Iceland has many glaciers in the mountains, there are tons of waterfalls.  When we were driving along the coast we would see many waterfalls coming out of the mountains.  Some were just tiny but some were very big. One day we hiked up to the top of a waterfall, it was called Skogafoss.  When we were visiting the biggest waterfall in Europe, called Gulfoss, we saw a rainbow form from the mist spraying up from the falls.

The mist and rainbows. 

 

We hiked all the way up this waterfall!

As we travelled through the mountains we got to see many glaciers. Glaciers are layers of ice piled on top of each other that formed millions of years ago - in the last ice age. They are grey at the bottom because the ice gets mixed with rocks, and white at the top. Sadly we could not climb them because none of the spiky shoes that you are required to wear would fit my paws, but we did see some interesting blue ice at the bottom of the glacier.  At one stop we saw icebergs floating in the lagoon water at the base of the glacier. 

 

The icebergs were floating in faster then I could eat a banana!

The hot pools, waterfalls and glaciers are very popular in Iceland and if you plan on going to Iceland you will get to see them too. I have to catch my plane to England now. I will write again soon.

Written in monkey by Socks, translated by Ally.