The Iceland trip begins

Each day, a patrol is taking reponsibility for the blog.  Today is the turn of the patrol they call 'Mrs Hal', because it consists of Madeleine, Ruby, Sophie, Harley, Amy and Lucy.  Here it is...

On the coach, Lucy realised she had equivalent of £1.30 in Icelandic kroner.  This will not go very far.  After a long drive we eventually arrived at the airport. After going through security, we went to the shops in the airport to buy our lunch but 20 minutes later, Harley realised that she had lost her boarding pass so she couldn't buy anything. Helen managed to get another one printed for her! 

On the plane we found our seats, settled down and then found that Amy's screen wasn't working so Sophie shared hers with Amy; subsequently, Amy broke Sophie's screen. Meanwhile Madeleine was writing some postcards to her family at home, including Wilson the dog.  Ruby thought that her ears were exploding.  Apart from this, all was going well.

On arrival in Iceland, we realised that, whilst there was no snow immediately evident, there were snow-capped peaks in the distance, therefore we understood why it is called ICEland.  

We bundled into a large coach, driven by a man called Shiki.  He drove us to the Blue Lagoon, even though we were meant to be going to our youth hostel.  

On arrival at our accommodation, we struggled to make our beds.  Sophie couldn't work out how to put her duvet cover on, so she crawled into it, spread it over the floor and, variously assisted by the others, suceeded in putting it on.  She is still wearing it now.  

Meanwhile, Harriet managed to get stuck in the toilet after the lock failed.  Helen suggested we get a ladder; unfortunately the staff member heard 'write a letter' which was less helpful.  Another Guide locked herself out of her bag and another considered finding gummy bears under her bed to be an emergency.

We've just had dinner and are really tired, so it's time for us to sign-out and say goodnight.  We all say hello to our families - 'hi everyone!'

Written by: Madeleine, Ruby, Sophie, Harley, Amy, Lucy.