Reykjavík, Iceland, Friday, February 22, 2019 (Friday evening)

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We arrive back in Reykjavík and lovely Hotel Thingholt in time for dinner.

And you never have to get back in the minibuses again. We promise! Make sure to thank your guides, than either head up to your rooms, over to the spa, or out into town for nightlife ala Iceland. It's our last evening here, so don't have so much fun that you don't look up at sky for our last glimpse of the Northern Lights for a while.

Still spectacular, huh?

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Hotel

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Tonight we're back at the Hotel Thingholt, conveniently located right downtown and in walking distance of museums, restaurants, cool architectural features, and really good shopping.

Rooms

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Students are in deluxe doubles/twins whichever is funnier and come with either a bathtub or a sofa again, whichever is more important to you. Teachers are in junior suites and have both sofas and bathtubs. They're so fancy.

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The Lobby

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Sooooo. Suuuuuuper fun fact. The drinking age in Iceland was not eighteen, as Summer had thought it was, but was actually twenty, a detail she hadn't quite picked up on (somehow) until just now when she went to take up the invite for a pub crawl that had gone out. Which wasn't, you know, awkward at allll, noooooo.

Back to the hotel for now, then, where Summer was not sulking in the lobby, honest! She was just...being there. Uhhh, in case anything happened. Like...watching for Beaker making his way through with any barrels.

Not sulking.

Okay, maybe sulking a little. And wondering if she was just too bummed out now to party, or if it would be too demoralizing to have to type 'under 20 dance clubs in Reykjavík' into Google.

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"Hi, Summer." Hera waved and smiled at her. "Is everything okay?"

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"Hera!" Summer was, of course, always glad to see her, but at that moment, remembering now that she wasn't the only non-drinking-eligible adult on the trip, it was especially nice to see her. She smiled back, but just briefly, as she soon melted back into her seat with a faint groan and a roll of her eyes. "And everything's fine, it's just...Ugggh." Her head tilted back with another groan. "Drinking ages. Rosa's apparently doing a teacher pub crawl, and I'm all, cool, great! That'll be a fun way to spend my last night here and maybe bond with some of my coworkers," and make it less weird they they used to be her teachers, "but nooooope. Here I thought you could drink at eighteen in Europe, but not Iceland. You gotta be twenty."

She looked to Hera, imploring for empathy.

"So now I just gotta decide if I want to do something else or be the non-drinker at the party, which..."

She shook her head.

Not her style. She'd rather just stay here.

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"Would you want to be one of two non-drinkers at the party?" Hera asked. "Three if Kanan wants to come? There's no reason we can't go out and have fun anyway."

Restaurants

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Whether you try the Ísafold Restaurant with locally sourced ingredients in our hotel, or venture out to the SKÝ Restaurant & Bar, located on the top floor of CenterHotel Arnarhvoll with amazing views of the city and the mountains beyond, or Jörgensen Kitchen & Bar, a casual dining Nordic fusion restaurant located in Centerhotel Midgardur, you'll eat very, very well.

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Spa

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Starting to feel a little like your spine has been welded in the shape of your minibus chair? The Isafold Spa is here for you! You can even get a combination meal and massage for couples!

[OOC: Again, if this starts going NSFW, move it to your personal accounts!]

Exploring Reykjavík

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After a week in small villages, Reykjavík seems almost massive! There's still a ton to see and do just blocks from the hotel.

Culture

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The Leifur Eiríksson statue is a ten minute walk from the hotel, and is conveniently located next to the Hallgrimskirkja, and absolutely not-to-be missed cathedral.

Most of the museums are already closed for the evening, but it never hurts to stretch your legs and plan out your day for tomorrow!

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Food & Drink

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Whale sashimi? All the skyr you can eat? A cafe named for Loki and absolutely hilarious to a few of you? Reykjavík has you covered.

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Pub Crawl starting at Kaffibarinn

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As must as Rosa actually had been enjoying the tour around Iceland (that kid going over the waterfalls in a barrel would never not be hilarious), this was a little more her speed. And usually, in a new..."city" (sure, she'll be generous) in a different country, she'd usually hit the town and pick up a random local or two, usually under a fake name, and go from there. But that would just be pretty weird and awkward right now, and she still needed to get out and enjoy it before heading back.

So she did something she didn't think she'd probably ever do and sent out a text to all her fellow teacher on the trip in a vague attempt to get something going:

Pub Crawl. We'll start at Kaffbarinn, see where it goes from there. Let's get the most out of this last night.

There. Rosa, already there at the bar working on her first drink, sent the text and shook her head. Who even were you anymore, Diaz? Someone waiting to see if anyone took her up on it, apparently, and, if not, well...she'd be enjoying some drinks anyway.

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Miguel, of course, was here. Getting a drink and toasting Rosa with it. "What, no waterfall in the bar?"

They were everywhere here.

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"I was hoping for more reindeer, myself," said Rosa, nodding her head as she toasted back with her own beer, completely believing this would totally be the kind of place where a reindeer would just waltz into a bar, and half wondering if the main reason Tightpants showed up was because he knew she'd give him crap when she got back if he didn't. Not that she'd complain. "Night's still young, though. At least one of these places has to have a waterfall."

And now she was going to be disappointed if there wasn't. Thanks.

"Were you hoping to fish another student out of one or something?"

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"If they let a student in here, I'm siccing the cop on them," Miguel said with a grin. "In other words, I'm hiding behind you."

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Fridays were Amaya's drinking nights and Diaz was a friend, so she figured it might not be a bad way to spend the evening at all. She was there at the first stop, grabbing a beer by recommendation, and taking a second to scope out the place and doing a rather unintentional Caritas comparison.

Funny how you wound up just getting used to some things.

And when she found Diaz, she greeted her with a, "Before we get too far into this, I'm laying down one rule. You can only ask me about that axe once per bar."

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"Who sent that axe, Blackstone?" demanded Rosa, but she was grinning, because how could she have greeted her any other way now? She shook her head, then, narrowing her eyes. "Just you wait, though. Maybe tonight's the night we see just how much booze it takes to get a smith to spill her secrets."

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"Beaker," Anakin said, making a face. "Also, I need more vodka. Possibly all the vodka."

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"Beaker," Miguel agreed. He signaled the bartender. "I have no idea how that kid's still alive. He must have more of a healing factor than Sabretooth and more luck than Longshot."

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"I don't know if there's enough vodka in the whole country," Rosa offered, because that was going to be the theme now, apparently. "Is this the part where I point out that, if the indestructible kid going over a waterfall or two in a barrel is the worst thing that happened on this trip, then we really kind of got off easy?"

Because, honestly.

Honestly.

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[not_a_bird]

Sweet Dee did not get to be on the crawling side of a pub crawl nearly enough, and she wouldn't need even half of that as a reason to get out and hit the bars. So it shouldn't surprise anyone that she'd make an appearance and figured she'd drink all these bones right under the table

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"Roomie," Anakin said, waving.

Mod Your Fun

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Where are you? What are you doing? Who's got eyes on Beaker?

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Kaidan was peopled out. He enjoyed the company but needed some quiet downtime so he went for a walk and let himself just meander through the town itself. He had a backpack with him and did some minor souvenir shopping, most of it from tiny roadside crafters.

Eventually he found Nauthólsvík Thermal Beach and went to see what that was about. The large sea walls were well built. Beyond them, he could see both sail boats and windsurfers enjoying the breeze and the chill air. A few people had paddleboards. The air was chill enough that steam rose from the thermal part of the pool. Stripping off his boots and rolling up his cuffs, he went for a wade along the curve of the beach's shore. There was a sauna and steam room, and also a deeper hot tub nearby. He could see some people using those but for now he had the beach all to himself, quietly enjoying the varying feel of warm water and cool air against his feet.

OOC

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Tomorrow we go to the Blue Lagoon, then back home to Fandom in the afternoon.