Or, as a friend said, just like Friday but on a different day.
Although today is technically Wednesday, here in Iceland today is treated more like a Friday. The reason for this is that tomorrow, Friday and Monday are all public holidays, leading to a rather long weekend. As a result people start partying on Wednesday afternoon or travel to visit friends elsewhere in the country. Certainly when I arrived at Reykjavík domestic airport the car park was not only full but overflowing into the nearby roads and other car parks. Even the flight was fairly crowded.
From the airport we headed into town to the closing-down sale at the leather shop. I went a little wild and bought a full hide of blue-dyed leather to make a jerkin to go over my fencing shirt. I probably only need about half of it but I'm sure that I'll find something to do with the rest. I also picked up some very soft red glove leather (for gloves that I promised to make for someone several years ago) and some rather nice black leather that should be enough to make several pairs of indoor shoes.
There was also a trip to a fascinating, er, school supplier. This is a craft shop that sells the normal stationery, threads, papercraft materials and craft books but also sells equipment for chemistry labs. If you happen to need variegated perle thread, peel-off card decorations, conical flasks and test tubes then this is the shop for you. It appealed to so many facets of my inner geek.
Tomorrow I have an 07:30 flight to Stansted, which means I have to be up at oh-dark-hundred to get to the airport. Although up here now we don't really get oh-dark-hundred any more, rather we get oh-surely it can't be light yet?-hundred instead. Whichever it is, it calls for an early night tonight.