Today was a long and beautiful day. We left Keflavik after hearing nothing from Marias. I had tried to reach him for two days with no response. As it turns out they had just returned from their cottage in Bjartangar. That is the place where Gyða grew up in the northwest part of Iceland.

We did some traveling about and then made our way to Reykjavik to check on our reservations at the Hotel Cabin (set for today). They knew nothing of our reservations. This at first appeared to be bad news. But as we were able to look at a room and ask about internet connections for Jimmie we decided that maybe it was best after all. Before we made any decision however we had to see Marias. He said he made the reservation for us at the Hotel Cabin or somewhere. What did he do? I realize Hotel Cabin is a strange name. It does not look anything like a cabin. It is a six story building in downtown Reykjavik. We went to see if Marias was home. Gyða was home and asked us to wait and that Marias would be back shortly. When he arrived he was confused about what the Hotel Cabin told us. He did not know what had gone wrong. everyone was introduced and we talked for awhile. Then Marias wanted us to go to a place called Amerian Style (it is a hamburger place). We talked about our meetings beginning Sunday. On this Marias began to hedge. This I expected. We had corresponded for weeks putting everything together, going through details and then when everyone is in Iceland ready to go it becomes unclear whether this can be done or not. I was prepared for this and tried to encourage him that this was a needed thing and we must try it. Also he lets us know that someone else is coming from the States for the weekend who is possibly here to look us over. We will see. I could be wrong but that is what it sounds like. I am ready to switch gears in this if needed and begin from square one. This trip will not be wasted. Am I discouraged? No, I expected this could happen and this may not be so bad.

My goals for Friday:
1. Go to Morgunblaðið (the newspaper in Reykjavik) and get our ad in again for our BCCs.
2. Look up our BCC student in Reykjavik. I hope to get a Bible study going there.
3. Take the DVDs and books to Marias - thank you WVBS