Hays Family in Iceland: Day 55-faint northern lights

February 28-Shan and Sally headed to Borgarnes to have lunch at the bakery and to get

some shopping done. Shan has been needing to get a haircut for a while, so one of Sally's coworkers helped him get an appointment at a salon in Borgarnes today as well. The hair stylist was an au
pair in Taos, NM twenty years ago, so they were able to talk about the Rocky Mountains as well as about Iceland. One of the funnier things that Sally found while shopping today was "Cool American Doritos." They taste like cool ranch Doritos, but I suppose that "ranch flavor" does not translate well to Icelandic.
Would you expect it to do so to any language? Now, we are cool Americans with our cool American Doritos!
After the kids got home from school today they e-mailed, knitted and played on the iPad. Then, one of the neighbor girls showed up with a cute little Yorkie puppy, so the kids all took off to play with it. They ended up at another neighbor's house, whose father is
a policeman in Reykjavík and has a drug-sniffing dog. I would think that they got their fill of dogs today.

A daily routine has developed, in which Shan checks the forecast for the aurora borealis each morning and evening. It did not look particularly promising this evening, but the night sky was mostly clear, which has been very rare this winter, so we took a peek out the window. Lo, and behold, there was a faint green glow in the sky! Sally had bought a tripod for her camera in Reykjavík a couple weeks back, so we decided to put it to good use. We jumped into the car and drove a half mile down the road towards Hreðavatn to get away from the streetlights around Bifröst and then waited for the clouds to clear. We got some very nice views and the tripod worked great. These displays were not nearly as energetic as the ones we saw back in January, but they were still beautiful. I don't imagine that we will ever tire of this spectacle.