Day 148-leaving Iceland

   May 31-I taught at Hraunborg one last time today.  The kids have shown more improvement in their English over the past four months than I have shown in my Icelandic!  Parents and teachers claim that they hear kids using English words more and are asking more questions about English.  Overall, they all seem to like what I have done.  Spencer's teacher, Ingibjörg, even gave me one of the polished “wishing stone” she had brought back from New York City

I get my final farewell hugs from the kids.

in April. 
   Back at the apartment, we all continued preparations for our imminent departure to Europe.  Spencer finished with his packing and went to Þorsteinn’s 5^th birthday party late in the afternoon.  At its conclusion, the rest of us showed up and Emma and Pálmar made hamburgers and pizza for us.  We relaxed until 8:30, and then returned home, packed up, and left a little after 9 pm.  We arrived at Keflavík a little after 11pm and parked in long-

We found a place to "camp out" while we waited
for our flight, which was a little delayed.

term parking.  Ironically, these parking spaces are closer to the terminal than the short-term park spaces are at Denver International Airport!  We waited in long line of passengers checking into AirBerlin’s four flights that were scheduled to leave between midnight and 1 am.  The Sun had been up the entire drive to the airport and it finally set over the open ocean at 11:30 pm while we were checking in.  Our flight boarded a little after 1am and we were off on our grand European adventure!