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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. 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.

That's pretty cool. We hope to get to Iceland some day.

Thumper wrote:That's pretty cool. We hope to get to Iceland some day.

I went six years ago. One of the best vacations of my life. I'd live in Iceland if they'd let me (they won't).