Happy Thanksgiving!
The Willy Field crew, consisting of the CSBF balloon support crew, SBI, ANITA, and BLAST science teams all had a fantastic thanksgiving lunch today courtesy of Matt, our resident field cook extraordinaire. Matt is the best cook on the continent, really, his soups alone are reason enough to drag ourselves to work every day when its 40 below freezing. Seriously, the great food out here really helps the morale being stuck out here for months at a time, particularly the poor CSBF support crew, who do this year after year for the whole season. You guys all rock!
Matt & Melissa
Thanksgiving down here is actually a little different. As well as the fantastic lunch today (I doubt much work will be going on this afternoon, I'm dozing off as I type this), there is a main thanksgiving dinner at McMurdo on Saturday. This is because a lot of people on base are working or otherwise busy during the usual dinner hours. Its split into 3 time slots so everyone can make it for some turkey and trimmings. After all these big Thanksgiving dinners I think I'm going to haave to go hike the Castle Rock loop a half dozen times so I can still fit in my ECW gear!
Here is the Thanksgiving lunch gallery:
Matt & MelissaThanksgiving down here is actually a little different. As well as the fantastic lunch today (I doubt much work will be going on this afternoon, I'm dozing off as I type this), there is a main thanksgiving dinner at McMurdo on Saturday. This is because a lot of people on base are working or otherwise busy during the usual dinner hours. Its split into 3 time slots so everyone can make it for some turkey and trimmings. After all these big Thanksgiving dinners I think I'm going to haave to go hike the Castle Rock loop a half dozen times so I can still fit in my ECW gear!
Here is the Thanksgiving lunch gallery:
posted by Nathan at
12:24 PM
4 Comments:
Happy Thanksgiving Nate! We were just talking about you, so I had to jump up and get on the computer to check your blog (haven't done so in a couple of days) to see what's up. Stay warm!
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Matt, at 6:50 AM
Oopps! I was supposed to mention that Kristi says hi!
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Matt, at 6:51 AM
Do you receive mail from USA?
How often? Do you have a library with current magazines & daily newspapers besides the books? Have you heard of KABLOONA?
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Doris R, at 8:16 AM
Yes, we do recieve mail from the US. Bliss actually just got some mail from home. Letters take a few weeks, packages longer, as space on the C-17 transport planes is limited, and personal mail has the lowest priority. That said, 3 weeks for the other side of the world is not terrible.
There is a Library at McMurdo. Basically it got started as everyone is usually reading something around here (there is not much to do during down-time), so they started collecting up the books so people could share. Its mostly airport quality paperback novels (e.g. Clive Custler's Dirk Pitt series), but its stacked floor to ceiling. There are 2 newspapers, although they are printed on standard 8.5x11 and stapled together. The Antarctic Sun comes out once a week, covers news and goings on in McMurdo and the rest of Antarctica, and is linked from this blog (look right). The Times is also once a week, and pulls artices from all around the world to keep us in touch with everywhere that is not frozen under 90 meters of ice.
I have not hear of KABLOONA, but according to Wikipedia:
"Kabloona is a book by French adventurer Gontran De Poncins, written in collaboration with Lewis Galantiere, first published in English in 1941. It recounts Poncins solo unsupported journey in the Canadian arctic near King William Island where he lived with the Inuit (in those days, still generally called the Eskimos) for about 15 months during the period 1938 to late 1939."
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Nathan, at 10:57 AM
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