Family In Iceland

    I'm very, very, very sorry for not writing in a while, but nothing very interesting was happening. Two of my best friends here got sick from Tuesday, February 28 and only came back to school on Monday and Tuesday of the next week. Saturday and Sunday, we just drove around and looked at historic sites. One site was really cool because it a recreation of a Viking Hall and we got to look at the real site of the hall as well. The hall was built by Erik the Red and Leif Erikson was born here before moving to Greenland and exploring the Canadian (and maybe the US) coast.
     On Wednesday, my Nana and Papa Bill flew in from Denver to Boston, from Boston to Iceland. They got here at 6:45 a.m.! Joslyn, Spencer, and I all got to skip school to go have fun in Reykjavik with them. Nana and Papa Bill are the first family that I've seen in two months (besides my mom, dad, sister, and brother), so I'm very happy to see them. They will leave on Tuesday evening. Then, in the last week of March, my other grandparents, Grammy and Grampa, and my cousins, Stacia and Kailey, and my aunt and uncle, Misty and Greg are all coming up for two weeks!
     On Thursday, I went to Reykjavik with my class for a sporting competition. Seventh through tenth grade went to support our team. We had four people from our school that competed. They competed in pull-ups, just hanging there, push-ups, pushing your self up and down on some bars, and an cool obstacle course.
     I can't wait to ride an Icelandic horse! Stacia wants to ride an Icelandic horse, too, but we are not sure if people will be giving rides that soon. Oh well. We plan to go to a horse show with some of the best horses in Iceland there. The best horses in Iceland never go to international competitions because Iceland does not allow horses to be imported into the country because they want the Icelandic horse to stay pure and keep the fifth gate. Only Icelandic horses have a special fourth and fifth gate.
     The weather here is not beginning to look anything like spring. It might even be getting snowier. The days are getting longer, though. School is still awesome, and my Icelandic is getting better. If you have have questions, please just post a comment.

Well, that's all for now.

Alex : )