User blog:007Jamesdean/Volcanic Trip Part 1

Part 1: ICELAND.

At the Knudson-Loud-Anderson-Weather Estate we were all packing for a very awesome trip.

In his room Lincoln was packing his suitcase.

Lincoln: (To the Viewers) It's a big and awesome day for all of us. Nicole is taking us all on a huge vacation. We're going on a global adventure to see all of the worlds volcanoes and if we're lucky we're gonna see a couple of them erupt. A vacation like this would cost a tremendous amount of money. But Nicole is a famous Volcanologist and she is awesome! She financed this whole trip and we're gonna go all over the world and see all of Earth's Volcanoes. We're gonna be gone for 1 year. Here is a map of all of the worlds volcanoes.

Lincoln showed everyone a map of Earth and the Volcanoes that are on it.

Lincoln: We're gonna spend 3 days on each country that has a volcano. The closest one that we're going to is Iceland. This is gonna be AWESOME! We're gonna learn so much about rocks, minerals and all of Earth's Volcanoes and how they affected the world.

Lincoln finished packing.

Nicole finished packing her clothes and her equipment. She was looking at a picture she has hanging up on the wall. It was a photo of World Famous Volcanologists Maurice & Katia Krafft.

Nicole: You guys are my heroes and we're going to all the worlds Volcanoes to study and learn all about them.

Nicole finished packing and after everyone was all packed we got into Vanzilla and it turned into Jet Mode and we were all off to Iceland.

We all arrived at Iceland in 3 hours and it was cold. We were in the Capital City of Reykjavik.

Lori: It is literally cold here.

Nicole: It's Iceland, Lori. The temperature here is always in the mid forties. Lets go get some sweaters.

Nicole bought everyone some awesome Icelandic Sweaters and fur boots.

Lincoln: These sweaters are awesome Nicole.

Nicole: They are a tradition in Iceland.

Leni: These are totes adorbs.

Luna: I love these sweaters dudes. These are rockin.

Sam: They sure are luvbird.

Janeen: I like mine and it's beautiful.

Naruto: It's awesome.

Sakura: It sure is.

Lynn Sr.: These sweaters are amazing and toasty.

Rita: They sure are honey.

Me: So our first volcano in Iceland is located at Heimaey, Iceland's most important fishing port.

Nicole: That's right dad.

We all went to Heimaey and it was an amazing town.

Lana: This is an amazing town.

Lola: It's pretty.

Lucy: Why is the ground all black?

Me: This is volcanic ash. [Picks up some and it turned my hands black] Volcanic ash is rocks and dust and it rains down on everything when a volcano erupts.

Nicole: That's right dad. See that volcano over there?

Nicole pointed to a nearby volcano. It was Eldfell Volcano.

Nicole: That's Eldfell Volcano. It erupted in 1973 after being dormant for almost 6,000 years and it was an awful spectacle for the people of Iceland and Heimaey.

We all climb up Eldfell and it was a sight to behold.

Linka: This volcano is really small.

Lilly: I was expecting it to be taller.

Nicole: Eldfell is one of the smallest volcanoes on the planet. At 656 feet high it's one of the smallest volcanoes in the world. On January 21st, 1973 when Eldfell erupted everyone thought that they would be all right. But after lava flows came down there was trouble and they all had to be evacuated. 150 houses were lost in a few days due to lava and fire. The houses that didn't burn were buried under tons of volcanic ash and debris. But the harbor was being closed off because of the eruption. So to save their houses the people of Iceland did an extremely crazy and lucretive idea. Using 19 miles of piping they pumped millions of gallons of water from the ocean to cool the lava flows and it worked. It lasted for 7 months and it was widely known around to world.

Luan: That's amazing! That's one way to Cool Down! (Laughs to Rimshot) Get it?

We all laughed.

Me: (Laughs) That was a good one.

Eddy: (Laughs) That was funny.

Cody: That was a good one. But that was all amazing what they did back then.

Lisa: Affirmative. It was a very daring achievement for the people of Iceland and it was a huge success back 44 years ago.

Lily: It sure was.

Jared: That's amazing.

Jessie: I've seen this in the history books and it was an awesome feat for Iceland.

Later we all took Vanzilla in Helicopter mode to a famous volcano called Grímsvötn.

Lincoln: What volcano is this one?

Nicole: This is Grímsvötn. It's a volcano under ice.

Fu: It's beautiful.

Rin: It looks like there's nothing here.

Nicole: It does doesn't it. But that's the beauty of it. In 2011 Grímsvötn Erupted and put on one of the most spectacular displays in the world. It was a dirty thunderstorm and the column of ash had a huge display of lightning in it that was amazing.

Lucy: That's amazing. I had no idea that volcanoes can create their own weather.

Laney: It's really amazing. We've seen it when Dante's Peak was wiped out.

Vince: That was really cool.

Cody: I've seen that in the news and it was awful that that happened.

Varie: Volcanoes are one of the most powerful forces of nature on our planet and it is amazing at how much destructive power they have.

Lincoln: It was awful.

Fu: Yeah.

Lola: It's amazing that Volcanoes can pack that much power.

Lana: No kidding.

Lisa: It is a scientific wonder in the world of Volcanoes.

Naruto: Yeah.

Later we were walking up the slopes of "The Volcano That Stopped The World" - Eyjafjallajökull.

Lincoln: What's this volcano?

Nicole: This is Eyjafjallajökull. It's widely known throughout the world as "The Volcano That Stopped The World". In 2010 it erupted and it affected all Air Travel across the Northern Atlantic Ocean. 94,000 Flights had to be cancelled because of the ash clouds and it affected 20 countries in Europe and Eastern North America. From March 20th to June 23rd, 2010 the Volcano had that affect.

Lincoln: That's amazing and awful.

Sam: It sure is.

Luna: Dude. That was awful.

Shannon: It sure was.

Cody: I saw that in a newpaper and it was terrible.

Ronnie Anne: I saw that too and it was terrible.

Nicole: We still have alot of volcanoes in Iceland to see and lots of stuff to do.

We went to all kinds of shops in Iceland and had some unique food and got some great stuff.

Continues in part 2.