Visited the Volcano House
The past two weeks I've felt the pull of a 'study vortex' where it gets much busier with assignments, reading & studies. Keeping a balance is really interesting, yet I find the simplicity of living close to classes, kids schools, shops that it is pretty calm compared to the driving & pace of Kelowna. I'm finding Geophysics the most time-consuming as it's a new twist on physics that my brain needs to wrap around. That'll take time & am determined to 'get it'.. It's interesting that mountains have measureable roots that virtually float in the crust on the more dense mantle of the earth. It's measureable with gravity metres that we will learn to use on a field trip later in Oct. The isostatic equilibrium below us within the Earth & the balance of the Moon, Earth & Sun orbits are ummm, well, no words can say it is just cool.
The weather has kept nicely. No snow, mostly cool, fresh & chilly days sometimes with rain. Today was a sunny cool day, perfect for a stroll downtown. There's a cool market with many treasures to be found!! Niall & I sampled more shark meat and purchased dried/pounded cod and smoked lumpsucker fish. Some Icelandic pie and cake topped it off. We found two wooden swords & sheilds a little boy was selling (he made em at school), a vintage Viking leather belt and Icelandic wool mitts for me. Found some cool books all in Icelandic language: an Icelandic bible, a thick donald duck comic book, and two more books. The girl working at the fish counter had really cool funky curly hair, i couldn't help saying "I love your hair!!" She shared that her father is Icelandic, her mother is Canadian whose parents were from Barbados!! The likelihood of having such a similar heritage to Alexis, Kai & Niall was a nice surprise for us all!! She's 17 and plans to connect with Alexis.
I am enjoying my red bike now that works well for Niall to sit on the rack so we get around very easily and it's fun! This afternoon, we visited the Volcano House (http://volcanohouse.is) to watch two films and a geology museum. There was a grand piano in the lobby Alexis & I played and oh! it felt good to play a piano.
We love going to the coffeehouse together and playing cards, for some reason we laugh a lot there so we enjoyed that today, too. To top off the weekend, on our walk home we saw our first NORTHERN LIGHTS!!! They became bright purples, greens dancing across the sky. It was very momentous and exciting, a first for the children. Love the aliveness of the elements!
The weather has kept nicely. No snow, mostly cool, fresh & chilly days sometimes with rain. Today was a sunny cool day, perfect for a stroll downtown. There's a cool market with many treasures to be found!! Niall & I sampled more shark meat and purchased dried/pounded cod and smoked lumpsucker fish. Some Icelandic pie and cake topped it off. We found two wooden swords & sheilds a little boy was selling (he made em at school), a vintage Viking leather belt and Icelandic wool mitts for me. Found some cool books all in Icelandic language: an Icelandic bible, a thick donald duck comic book, and two more books. The girl working at the fish counter had really cool funky curly hair, i couldn't help saying "I love your hair!!" She shared that her father is Icelandic, her mother is Canadian whose parents were from Barbados!! The likelihood of having such a similar heritage to Alexis, Kai & Niall was a nice surprise for us all!! She's 17 and plans to connect with Alexis.
I am enjoying my red bike now that works well for Niall to sit on the rack so we get around very easily and it's fun! This afternoon, we visited the Volcano House (http://volcanohouse.is) to watch two films and a geology museum. There was a grand piano in the lobby Alexis & I played and oh! it felt good to play a piano.
We love going to the coffeehouse together and playing cards, for some reason we laugh a lot there so we enjoyed that today, too. To top off the weekend, on our walk home we saw our first NORTHERN LIGHTS!!! They became bright purples, greens dancing across the sky. It was very momentous and exciting, a first for the children. Love the aliveness of the elements!