Thick Milk

 Þykkmjólk. A very viscous yogurt drink with chunks fruit. Red gets the apricot version from the dairy case in the nearby convenience store in the terminal. Difficult to drink from a carton, but delicious as we share the carton. Our first great find in country.

We head over to the rental counter. There are a few folks in line, and it takes forever. The kid and the counter is diligent but somehow over his head with some issue. In the counter next to us, a young woman with a rather typical Icelandic female visage sits on a chair mostly staring off into space and listening to music on ear buds. Her hair is up in a small bun on the very top of her head. It's the typical and distinct way young Icelandic women wear their hair---up on top of their head.


Later in the trip Red tries wearing her hair that way, to be Icelandic. It works. She is mistaken for a native by other Icelanders, just in her appearance.