I really like Doritos, but here in Iceland they are rather expensive. Even so, there was no way I could pass up a chance to get a bag of Cool Americans.

Iīll have to do some asking to find out why they donīt have Ranch.

Wall mural from the Kringlan mall.

Spiderman. I just missed this little kid climbing up on one of the brick street barriers, too.

Would you believe that pink, red, and white are fairly popular boot and shoe colors?

Kids all over love RC cars, I guess.

Take a close look, and you will see the letters WC.
This thing is actually a bathroom downtown.
WC stands for Water Closet, by the way.

Some of the pictures I take are just corny.

I love these exit signs.

When you leave someplace, it needs to be in a hurry!

Hey...wanna be a Rock Bitch when you grow up?

I took this picture because of the sheer number of beach and sand toys.

Thatīs a lot of shovels, especially for this rock called Iceland.

I thought there may have been that many in the entire country, but one store?!?

Nice place to take a date.

Typical day at the Smaralind mall.

Structure just outside the equivalent of a City Hall building.

Reykjavik Graffiti.

Size comparison for the wall.

Street vendors start young here.

Actually, in addition to their own stuff, they were selling some surplus that had next to no value for one of the downtown stores.

Tiger stores. These are equivalent to our All A Dollar stores.
As you can see in Iceland, though, everything is 200 or 400 kronur.
That is roughly equal to all $3 or $6.
We do a lot of shopping at these stores.

Do it and like it!

hehe. Wanna Balloner?

This is some handmade soap.

Fountain outside of one of the downtown shops.

This is how you tell if a girl is Icelandic....
Hair wind blown? (optional) Check
Multiple earrings? Check
Scarf? Check
Headphones? (optional) Check
Wearing multiple print t-shirts? Check
Funky gloves? Check
Oversized fabric purse? Check
Skirt/Dress in drab colors? Check
Nifty stockings? Check
Skater shoes? Check
But probably the most important...Does she look like she just stepped out of a 1980s music video on MTV?!?!

This little bastard will set you back almost $2000 U.S.

I was just happy to see him.

We saw the Pope on this day.

This is one of the cash register counters at 66 Degrees North.

Another counter.

While walking through the Smaralind mall one day, Heather and I just kind of walked into a food convention.
We were able to get all kinds of samples from the vendors.
Cheese Days is what it was actually called.
I didnīt care what it was called, because this was the first time in about 6 weeks that I had even seen real cheddar cheese, let alone eat some.

This is some stuff that I was not real sure about trying, but I did anwyay.

It was actually a really sweet type of cheese product.

This Pizza Hut in the mall kind of blows away the American theory of them always having to have the red roof over a store.

Out of focus, but apparently land is for sale in Iceland.

This was posted on one of the bulletin boards at the University.

It caught my eye because of how we use "guru" in English.

Translated, this asks "Are you computer-guru?"

Icelanders take their coffee-drinking seriously.

I havenīt been able to sneak too many action pictures involving coffee, but here you can see that they will even bring a thermos to class.

One of the few luxuries I donīt go without here in Iceland, even it is cost prohibitive.

There are no discounts on multi-pack items, even 6 or 12 packs of beer, so it costs the same per bottle of coke if I get 1 or 18.

This "18 pack" sets me back just over $22 U.S. Dammit!

The cost has definitely helped to lower my overall consumption, though.

Baby On Board.

Even coming all the way over to Iceland, I canīt escape these damn signs.

One of the statues I like.

I pass by it every time I go downtown.

Football anyone?

Yep, even here.

I had to have Zach pretend I was getting a picture of him.

The thing I actually wanted to show with this is the stroller.

It is very common to see baby strollers just sitting outside a store.

There is not much to worry about, I guess.

Hello.

This is how advertising is done for a lot of local events.

WTF?!

One of the locals....not very princess-like, I would say.

Holy Shit!

I finally found a store that sells cheddar cheese.

However, my excitement was very short lived.

The price for cheddar is 3692 kronur per kilogram.

That, my friends, is over $50 U.S. (yes, fifty) per kilo!

Notice the calculator in the background to help you figure out how many days
you are going to have to work to afford to make yourself a grilled cheese sandwich.

I asked this guy if he knew that his shirt was the reason why he wasnīt getting the chicks.

This was his response.

Some of the common names in Iceland.

What do you think of this, Bobbi?

You better leave a comment!

View from my dorm at about 5:30 in the afternoon.

I was playing around with my camera.

This shot actually turned out a lot better than I thought it would.

The reason the Red Sox have made it to the World Series.

Me on the city bus.

One day in the mall, I came upon a pretty interesting thing.

You can sign up to give a 10 minute speech on anything you want to talk about.

Some real-life advertising at one of the bus stops.

Icecream is....crap?

South Beach Diet....yep, even here.

This is the bathroom at the Hlemmur bus station here in Reykjavik.

When I first walked in, I thought I had entered a parallel
universe where I was going into the bathroom of some club.

Kind of a cool-looking moon this night.

Sláter. Wow. This was a very interesting dinner.

Sheepīs insides boiled up in the stomach.

The darker one is blood pudding.

I at least tried them, but no, I did not have more than one bite.

Sheepīs head.

I tried this, as well, but I think I had a bad piece.

I had the lower lip...and maybe some of the eyeball.

The table set and waiting for us.

The moon from just outside of my dorm.

Kind of nifty.

I just moved a little bit to get the trees that were lit up by a streetlight.

Found in a bathroom stall.

How many American Flags can you count?

This was taken during "American Days" at one of the grocery stores.

Bubble strollers....vital for the weather here.

Kind of difficult to read, but the one-word epitaph
really struck me...especially since he was 70 or 71.

As you can see, there are a variety of things that you can do in Iceland with a tour group.

One thing that I was not aware of, however, was dog sledging.

I used to just think that was Koreaīs foothold on a main ingredient for take-out.

Good luck getting any U.S. Postal worker to deliver here!

Beep!

Hard-core Soccer, er football players.

They even wear shorts, theyīre so cool.

Another action shot. Notice Gamli Garður in the background?

This was a pretty funny scene...as soon as the two girls closer to me noticed I was taking a
picture, they tried their hardest to shake the other girl off of this while laughing hysterically.

This obviously shows a soccer ball on top of the frozen lake,
but it also shows how long Zachīs shadow is.

This picture was taken at 12:30, and the sun is just barely over the horizon.

Nifty statues.

Christams decorations have been up since just before Halloween.

A shot taken on the main shopping street downtown.

Notice how the billboard is right in mid-change.

Pretty cool handmade bulldozer.

This doesnīt really show the scale of it, but if you look at the floor
those tiles are about 12 inches each.

This was a very heavy "toy" that would cost right at $450 (four-hundred and fifty!).

Well, we know what the bride thinks of marriage!

Here is a very unassuming building that is actually the jail.

Notice the surveillance cameras?

Other than the cameras, this barbed wire
is about the only indication this is the jail.

Looking forward to being home at Christmas!

WTF!?!

Messing around with the statues.

Some colorful buildings viewed from the top of the Hallgrimskirkja Church.

A little snow wonīt deter this guy.

Nifty sign.

Notice the advertisement for Elf?

Getting a little close!

The organ at the Hallgrimskirkja Church.

Check out Zach in the mirror.

A view of the Perlan from my window when it snows.

Apparently this person has been walking for a while.

I like the Discreet Service portion of this.

I actually went over to try the door, and a guy who had been watching
me take some pictures laughed and said that it was his joke.

He lives just above this section of the building.