Such cool shots of Sundhnúkagígar in Iceland erupting! (It's actually hard to find the name of the volcano in news reports because no one besides Icelanders can spell it LOL. Their names look like a cat just walked across the keyboard :P) I'm SO jealous people can see the eruption when they're flying in! It's really impressive how they built the barriers to save the hot springs. I want to go to Iceland so much..I looked at flights and it takes like 36 hours from Alaska. O_o That kind of trip would definitely need to be split up! Icelandic names are also epic..how cool is something like "Hildur Guðnadóttir"??

This is my favorite GIF right now:

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It's super fun saying "bed curtains?? Ahhh, bed curtains!!" LOL. I love her head nod thing when she looks away from the guy. There was one version I watched where Scrooge said "my wonderful, wonderful bed curtains!!" and hugged them haha. I'm so glad A Christmas Carol exists :P

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Coool. This volcano has been erupting for the past couple days (it's one of the most active volcanoes in the US). Flights were canceled, but the closest community is 37 miles away, so no one is in danger of lava or anything except for some ash fall probably. Nature is so cool!

The weather has been so gross today..rainy and damp, ew. It's annoying having to navigate around puddles lol

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Today's trivia: Men were the first sex to wear high heels. They were adopted by the European aristocracy of the 1600s as a signal of status. Women started wearing heels as a way of trying to appropriate masculine power

Wow, that is so cool and actually quite pretty. It must be loud too. I'd like to watch something like that if it was safe haha ("Stromboli" sounds like a type of pasta :P)

I'm not gonna start a new meme yet since I'm going to Florida next week and I'm lazy about doing those on vacation haha (yeah I'm moving the talking meme again..sorry haha)

Would you rather after having just run ten miles as fast as you can, find out you have to run three more miles or that you have to walk ten more miles? I guess if I was able to run ten I could do three more haha

Today's trivia: A parrotfish makes its own sleeping bag to sleep in. It uses mucus to make a see-through bag all around its body to protect it from attack by other creatures in the ocean

Wow, check out the shockwave when it first started erupting! It feels like lots of volcanoes have been erupting lately haha (it seems like at least three in Alaska erupted recently too)

The Weather Channel talked about Alaska's crazy heat yesterday! I love when they pay attention to Alaska haha. It's amusing to hear them try to pronounce the names here though.."Talkeeda" is definitely not how you pronounce "Talkeetna" :P

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Would you rather see the SWAT team pull up to your home or the HAZMAT team? Hmm maybe the SWAT team, that would be exciting :P

Today's trivia: Sapphires are the second hardest mineral, after diamonds

I don't know if I'd want to be that close D:

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Would you rather drink half a cup of a stranger's saliva or eat all the hair out of your bathtub drain? Ewww

Today's trivia: From the fields to your fork, the average American dinner travels 1,500 miles

Today we took a tour to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. We went in a van with other people (13 in total). The guide picks you up at different hotels..one was the Mauna Lani! I stayed there last time with dad and LOVED it..it was nice to see it again. :D Mark was pretty knowledgeable about Hawaiian legends, plants, animals, etc. It's nice to have that extra touch. It takes a couple hours to get to the park..it's on the wet side of the island. It was interesting transitioning from sere hilly land to wet lush forest. When we went through the dry area Mark was telling about GLACIERS that used to be on the volcanoes around us!! WHAT..glaciers in HAWAII??! He even showed us a terminal moraine from one of the glaciers!! I never thought I'd see anything relating to glaciers here! He said when the glaciers melted all that silty dirt blew off the volcanoes and formed the mounds around us. AWESOME haha. It was rainy and chilly while we were there..I feel like it's like that everywhere besides our hotel..wth haha. We drove to the summit of Kilauea (4,190 feet) and looked down at the caldera, which was steaming! There's a lava lake there (you can't see it unless you were in a helicopter or something). Pretty cool. We also explored lava fields, went to these cliffs (it was super fun to watch the waves just smash up against them! You could feel it in your feet! You could also see steam in the distance from lava going into the ocean) and explored a lava tube..way cool! Lava looks so interesting. There was also a lovely forest with huge ferns and cool bird sounds. We ate dinner near Kilauea's summit (it was dark by now) and then went back up to the summit to see the glow from the lava! (Luckily the clouds weren't totally obscuring it) It was so cool..it was bright orange/red and you could see it pulsing as the lava rose and fell! Wow. Then it was time for the long dark drive back to our hotels..luckily I had a flashlight (Mark gave them to us for the walk to the summit) so I read on the way back. I'm glad to be back on the warm side of the island haha..or at least the sunny/warm window at the hotel. :P Now..bed!

Well that's scary D:

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Would you rather be known for your bad habit of sniffing people's armpits whenever you greet them or be known for scooping after your dog with your bare hands instead of using a pooper scooper? O_o Ew

Today's trivia: Rubies are red because they contain chromium