Our adventure is behind us. We have been back home in Colorado for a couple of months now and have settled back in nicely. It has been nice to rekindle old friendships, to visit old haunts, and to be sleeping in our own beds again. Nonetheless, we miss the friends we made in Iceland and are already trying to find the time and money to visit again. Unfortunately, settling back into our "normal" lives has also meant taking on all of the responsibilities of jobs, home-ownership, and auto-ownership, which has meant losing most of the free time that we enjoyed in Iceland. Incidentally, we can better appreciate now that our fond memories of our stay in Iceland also partially derived from the lower levels of stress that come with fewer responsibilities!
We hope that our friends and family have enjoyed reading the blog entries and keeping up with our adventures. We have found ourselves looking back at the entries and reminiscing about the good times we had. With any luck, each member of the family will find the time to post some sort of final thoughts on our time in Iceland. After that, we will leave this blog open for a short while so we can use it as a Christmas card supplement of sorts, before closing access to it early in 2013. Our ultimate goal is to make hard copies for the kids to commemorate this chapter of their lives.
