Iceland, Day Three

We went to Iceland for two reasons. First, to hopefully see the Northern Lights (more on that in a future post). And second, to have Thanksgiving someplace crazy… Iceland won! 

Thanksgiving preparations

Thanksgiving day turned out to be a really miserable day. Rain, sleet, snow, wind - the works! We purchased most of the ingredients for our Thanksgiving feast the day before, but Bill and I were sent out to collect a few remaining items at the closest grocery store. It was a rather harrowing drive from our remote location to the main road, but then conditions improved a bit (thanks to gritting on the road and snowplows). 

As you can see from the two videos below, Mother Nature really was whipping us into shape! 

Once back at the rental house we prepped the big meal before sitting down for pre-dinner beverages.

Waiting for the turkey to finish

And Facebook posts.

Enjoying a pre-diner drink

And then it was time to eat.

Almost ready to dig in!

Brook is always the best chef to have around!

Yes! Brook is cooking!

Everything was a group effort and tasted delicious.

Time to eat!

In my last post I mentioned how expensive the cup of mushroom soup was. Brook somehow found a frozen turkey at the local grocery store. He thought the tag said 17 (Icelandic Kroner) for the bird, but it turned out that was 17 per kilogram and we bought a big bird. Needless to say, our grocery bill was higher than anticipated! Oh, well, it was Thanksgiving after all!

shredding the leftovers

After dinner we watched movies, played games, and let the tryptophan make us super-duper lazy.