So as many of y'all heard, there is a volcano erupting right now in Iceland and it's actually not too hard to go see it. In fact, hardest part was impatiently waiting for the weather to be good enough- there was a lot of wind and rain our few days so the hike wasn't advised, but our last full day it was upgraded to "not the best" so we went for it.
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And, wow, so amazing to see in person- I've been volcano obsessed since I was 4 years old and my parents got me a book on Pompeii (which is weirder to think about the older I am, but was awesome so guess it worked) and it was so incredible to see lava and all the rest of it!
I put a video
here along with a ton of pics, and thought I should share it here too. Basically the volcano does this every 6-9 minutes or so right now, and it's just amazing to see how it actually looks like in the movies. And to hear it too- I wasn't expecting sound, but turns out all that material falling down sounds a lot like a plane going overhead!
Also for those who haven't been obsessively watching it so far, there's actually a volcano live stream on YouTube (several, in fact!)-
here. Basically in all the bars/restaurants in Iceland whenever there isn't a sporting event on, they just show the local live stream, which I thought was delightful in itself.
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Yes, I have a life. It's quite different from yours.