Ms Kay Story 26

Ms. Kay slept so well Saturday night (except for the fact that it was light all night long. The sun never sets in the summer in Iceland. It is so far north.). She was very tired and somewhat stressed when she went to bed because the night before she had been on the airplane all night. Ms. Kay and her daughter Katherine went to breakfast downstairs in the Hilton Hotel on Sunday morning and they had never seen such a magnificent spread of food; there were even sandwich makings and they could pack a sandwich for lunch. Ms Kay saw scrambled eggs and yogurt, sweet rolls, cheese, fruit, cappuccino, orange juice, bread, butter. It was wonderful.

Later they drove to the Natural History Museum of Iceland in Reykjavik . It was totally wonderful. Iceland has a very interesting history and the museum was divided up into various exhibits showing different time periods. Ms. Kay found a wonderful app she could use and download on her iPhone which gave her the ability to listen to all the written notations at each historical station. She had never had this ability on her iPhone to be connected to a museum in that way. In other words, she could sit and listen, go back to this display and listen again. Also in Europe there are often cafés at museums and parks; here at the history museum they had a lovely café and next to it was a gift shop. Ms. Kay ate lunch there and looked out at the lovely surroundings through the window. Later she bought some earrings that that represented the ethnic old Icelandic culture.

Their next stop was the Perlan Museum. Here they could see the Lava Show , the Glacier Ice Cave and the Aurora Borealis show; what wonderful presentations. Then Ms. Kay went up to the revolving restaurant on top of the structure while Katherine finished going through the rest of the glacier cave. Ms Kay could see all of Reykjavík from this revolving restaurant area. She had a glass of wine and admired the view and looked into ordering language books on the Icelandic language. The Icelandic language is Old Norsk . The Norwegians came to Iceland in 840 A.D.and brought with them the Old Norsk language ; now Iceland is the only place in the world where Old Norsk is spoken.

Vocabulary : exhibits, ethnic, stressed, simulation, automatically.