Today is Christmas. It doesn’t seem like it at all. I went to the town Christmas party last night and that is the closest it has gotten to feeling like Christmas.
This was hard for me to believe, but there were tourists at McMurdo today. It was very odd. They were all wearing matching bright yellow jackets with red deflated life vests.
Today at work we had to take a few boxes to different buildings in town. Some of them were bulky and kind of heavy, probably too much to hand carry (plus it was COLD today).
It snowed most of the day today. Hard at times (nothing like DC I’m sure). I know that no 2 snowflakes are alike, but they were VERY different throughout the day today.
Someone put Christmas themed decorations up on the light poles around town. It’s kind of funny. It doesn’t seem like Christmas at all and it really doesn’t look like Christmas, but now the decorations help.
It snowed a little bit today. And I was only wearing my fleece, so that was bad planning on my part. I went back to the dorm a few times during the work day to do laundry and I never picked up a different coat though, so it wasn’t too bad.
Helicopters are AWESOME! Today’s helicopter ride was a great experience. For those of you that have never ridden in a helicopter, you should. If you can do it in Antarctica, that’d be even better (I might be bragging a little there, sorry).
Tomorrow I am scheduled to take a helicopter ride across the ice shelf to another island. I am going to Black Island. It houses our off-continent link to the rest of the world.
Well, I’ve officially been in Antarctica a month. Nothing special about today other than that so I don’t have a whole lot to say. I did drink a Diet Dr. Pepper today.