We're not heading to Iceland, but to Door County, Wisconsin. If you were to look at the back of your left hand, Door County would be the thumb sticking out into Lake Michigan, and Washington Island would be off the tip of the thumb. We aren't planning to take the ferry to Washington Island, but if we did, "Little Einstein" would be visiting the oldest Icelandic settlement in the USA.
"Settlers from Iceland began arriving in Wisconsin in the 1870s, attracted by glowing reports of fishing in Lake Michigan: "All the gold in the mountains of California," wrote one immigrant, "cannot equal the wealth that is to be found in the waters of Lake Michigan." Some Icelanders settled in Milwaukee and worked on the docks as well as on fishing boats. The majority, however, settled on Washington Island on Green Bay, the oldest Icelandic settlement in the United States. This community, populated by Sigurdssons, Gudmunders, Einersons, Gunnlaugssons, and Gudmundsens, also served as a launching points for other Icelandic settlements in North America. In 1924, there were over one thousand Icelanders living on Washington Island and in Door County, one tenth the total number in the United States." from Ethnic Groups in Wisconsin: Historical Background [http://mki.wisc.edu/Ethnic/ethn-his.html]