Thanksgiving

Sorry it's been a while since the last post. Not much has been going on here besides the usual work and surveys.

However, this week was Thanksgiving. Thursday night, we ate at camp and had a nice dinner of salmon, halibut, steak, corn, asparagus, cheesy bread, and pumpkin pie. Not a bad meal for 2 Coleman stoves and a Coleman oven. I wish I had pictures from camp, but I have gotten them from Steen yet. We even had our turkey decorations and our glass ice skating penguin centerpiece. Then we came into town Friday night because Sascha and I were planning on running in the 5k Turkey Trot. So after a late Friday night (we got to bed at about 4 am), we got up at 8:30 on Saturday to go run. I was running 3 miles before I left, but that was a few months ago and in the warm weather. I checked out the weather before we left and it said that it was 28 degrees, but when we got outside, we realized that there was about a 10-15 mph wind and we needed another layer of clothes. I didn't do too bad for running on snow and ice and finished in about 35 minutes.

That afternoon, we had thanksgiving dinner. They really fix up the galley for this with linens on the table and everything. There was turkey, mashed potatoes, and dressing, of course, but we also had green bean casserole, homemade rolls, salad and fresh vegetables (a luxury down here), and a big dessert table with cream puffs, chocolate cake and chocolate cream pie. Definitely a pretty good meal for Antarctica standards.

That's about it. We have today off, so I will probably just lunge around and watch movies all day, then back to camp tonight. We're winding down with the field work and only have 2 more surveys to do. It's going to be nice to get back to trees, warmer weather, and the comforts of home. It's definitely an amazing place down here, but it will be nice to get home.