1,064 miles in Iceland

We covered a lot of ground in Iceland on our trip. 1,713km or 1,064mi according to our car's odometer. That's just about the same distance as from NYC to Orlando.

We spent only two days in Reykjavik itself. The rest of our 7 days were spent driving to the North, The Golden Circle, Vik, and as far East as Jökulsárlón, aka the iceberg lagoon.

It was an amazing trip and we saw some of the most massive waterfalls, canyons, cliffs, and spires. As well as the most varied landscapes full of flowers, lava, mountains, glaciers, and rivers. We'll be posting photos here and there as we go through them.

We've moved!

Hello, friends! We've moved! We migrated from Blogger to Wordpress so that I could feed my Instagram photos to the blog, and that means that our rss feed has changed, too. Our blog url is still the same (http://submerge.sub-studio.com), but please update your rss feed to http://submerge.sub-studio.com/?feed=rss2!

Eleven months!

Little lady is eleven months old! I can't believe it. 2012 has been super busy so far - blogging has sadly fallen to the wayside. I've had 2011-in-review post started for weeks, but haven't managed to finish it, and now that it's mid-January, it feels kind of lame to post. So that probably won't happen.

These monthly photos are getting harder to take, because V will not sit still. She started walking right after she hit eleven months and has been wobbling around like a drunken sailor ever since. The photo below is a good illustration of what she's like these days. Yikes.

10-11 Months

Happy Friday the 13th from our own little gremlin :)

Xmas Playground

The playground down the street is always fun. Thanks to Aunt Sally for her fancy new jacket!

10.5 Months

The Noodle is now 10.5 months old, we missed a few weeks there :) Her newest skill, advancing week by week, is standing/walking/creeping. She will walk holding one hand on me or Anna and she'll race full speed if she's holding two hands. V is also becoming more of a blabbermouth with more syllables and different sounds strung together. We'll have a post on her first Xmas and how much fun she had with wrapping paper and other forms of packaging.

Happy Holidays!

The Lost Boys

I recently read Peter and Wendy because I hadn't seen the movie since I was a kid and never read the book it was based on. The book is full of wonder and adventures for Peter, the Darling children, the Lost Boys (see photo above), the Piccaninny tribe, and the pirates.

The book ends with a sad scene when Wendy is grown up and has not seen Peter for some time. Peter was to return every year to Wendy for a visit together to Neverland. But he was forgetful as all children are, and had not returned for many years. Instead it was Jane, Wendy's little daughter, who hears Peter's crowing and takes Wendy's place in flight to Neverland. Eventually, she too grows older too and it is Jane's daughter Margaret that takes her place, and so on for generations.

I haven't allowed my imagination to run in those old ways for some time. Our lives fill up with the burdens of grown-up living and playtime becomes a memory packed away in a closet with the toys of our youth.

With V, I can see a time when her great adventures will become my adventures too. I look forward to her creating worlds and characters and us all playing them out together. I'll tell her the story of Peter Pan and Wendy and we'll travel the island of Neverland with the Lost Boys. I just hope our time there isn't too short.

Playtime!

Some recent adventures at the playground.