Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas Everyone! Before I forget, tomorrow (Christmas Day for those of you back home), I'll be headed to the South Pole for two weeks. This means there is limited Internet access so the blog will not be updated while I'm gone. This also means that emailing will be limited and therefore don't expect me to write back (although I'm not very good at that anyway :)

These are two of my friends, Terry and Betty. Betty is a Yankees fan so sometimes we don't share the same opinions. The wonderful people below are Dave and Chelsea. These were the first two people I ran into at the Denver Airport on the way here.

The party on Sunday nigh was a ton of fun. I had to work on Sunday and after which I quickly ate dinner and then volunteered washing dishes in the Galley (so the Galley staff could make it to the party). I may have had a little too much to "fun", but I fit right in with the rest of the people there. It is amazing that we could transform an 8 bay garage into a large party hall. Santa even came to the party and I heard a rumor today that he to had a little too much fun and may be getting sent home (he's on the naughty list). I hope Mrs. Claus doesn't find out.

On Monday I went up to Arrival Heights with Brian, Bamma, and Megan. This section of town is off limits, but Brain works there and needed to check some of the equipment. It was a beautiful day and we could see Erebus smoking in the background. I have many more great pictures, but it takes way too long to upload them to the blog.

This is Brian hard at work. I told him to push some buttons so I could take a picture and he assured me he was going to have to push a lot of buttons. His job looks very cool.

Monday night was our big Christmas Dinner. I had to rush through it because I adopted my roommate the DA (Dinning Attendant) for an hour. This meant that he could skip work for an hour as I did his job. He truly appreciated it. However, before I left, I grabbed a tray full of King Crab Legs. Wow they were good. I ate most of them on Christmas day as a snack.

Also for Christmas I made my roommates stockings. I stuffed socks I grabbed out of SKUA (free thrift store) and filled them with all kinds of cool things I found in the trash one day working at the waste barn. I know it sounds weird, but they really appreciated it and there is a lot of fun stuff in the trash here.

Once again, I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a fantastic New Year!