The alterations

 Our hotel in Iceland was not in the capital city of Reykjavik. The tour operators started reaching out to us regarding our pickups. Some claimed that they wouldnt be able to pick from the hotel though during the initial conversations they claimed that they would! Taxis were not so easy to come by. And the distances which were 10 minutes drive according to Google maps would entail that we start 10 minutes earlier from the hotel. With kids everything can be up in the air. Plus an extra leg to the journey would add further unknowns. What if the taxis were late, what if we didnt manage one on a given day, what if, what if, what if. We deliberated a lot and finally decided that we had no other go but to cancel the tours and book ones which would definitely pick us from the hotel. Thankfully all the tours were cancellable and that is exactly what we did. We got in touch with the tour desk at the hotel and a whole ton of rework started.

The lady who was in touch with us was Katrina Anna and I must say she was remarkably helpful. She even helped us to plan and recommended that one of the tours we were opting for was nearly a duplicate of another and we might be better off going for some different ones. We spoke to her back and forth via emails. We had a ton of permutations to go through. Initially cost was a consideration, but then we realised that to get the best out of our time, we had to throw that variable out of the window. 

I am a pen and paper person. I kept jotting down stuff as we were moving along. There were a lot of changes on the way. 

Till finally this image emerged!! We had all the days planned! It did not leave us any time to marvel at Reykjavik. All the days were packed with long duration trips except for the last one which was 8 hours long. We hoped we would survive it. More importantly we hoped that the kids would be ok through it. But this was the plunge we had to take. We were ready to dive full on to experience Iceland!