Something got messed up and I now can't move the pictures around in the blog, but above is of a softball game and a couple from X-Mas. I stole them off the I-Drive.
I last left off at Marble Point where we would watch Gilligan's Island during lunch. My time there was fun and my flight home was even better. I have some good video, but unfortunately the files are too big to post here. 
When I got back to town I found out Fuels was having a Pizza Party out on Pad 2 (outside storage area) with all kinds of games. It was a nice way to get back to town life and during our games, the C-17 buzzed town. They are doing some work out at Pegasus and to save money they have canceled the C-17 until the end of January. This was the last flight and they did the traditional low flying salute over the top of town. The bad news about the last C-17 is that mail and fresh fruit is now limited to LC-130 flights which are much smaller.
Since it's that time of the year, lots of great events have gone on. In the chapel, people got together and put on a "Charlie Brown's Christmas". I have to say it really started to put me in the holiday mood. I also joined the Christmas Choir where we preformed over the HF radio to South Pole and the field camps, at the Town Party, and at Midnight Mass. Also to get into the mood, a co-worker and I dressed up and delivered fuel around town signing Christmas songs. It's nice to put a smile on someones face. I don't have any pictures, but Bama and I also dressed up for Burger Bar the other night. It was hot cooking with all that stuff on but again, it cheered people up. Currently McM needs a little cheer. I mentioned before about one of the medevacs, well there has been a few of them lately. People are getting hurt and being sent home. One day last week they had to activate our "walking blood bank" after a fleet ops worker was run over with a trailer. Our softball tournament also sent a few people home and station management is now threatening to cancel the annual rugby game against NZ.
Since it's the holidays I must remember my families. There are so many wonderful people out there that have taken me in including, Obrien's, Campie's, Compton/Popovici's, and of course my own. I miss everyone and hope you all enjoy your holidays. Merry Christmas from Antarctica.
I last left off at Marble Point where we would watch Gilligan's Island during lunch. My time there was fun and my flight home was even better. I have some good video, but unfortunately the files are too big to post here. When I got back to town I found out Fuels was having a Pizza Party out on Pad 2 (outside storage area) with all kinds of games. It was a nice way to get back to town life and during our games, the C-17 buzzed town. They are doing some work out at Pegasus and to save money they have canceled the C-17 until the end of January. This was the last flight and they did the traditional low flying salute over the top of town. The bad news about the last C-17 is that mail and fresh fruit is now limited to LC-130 flights which are much smaller.For many different reasons including our medevac of the Australian at Davis Station earlier this year, the Australian Airbus has made a couple flights down to McM for us. This is a regular jet plane that even comes with flight attendants. I had to go out and fuel it one day and got to meet the crew and get a tour. We also had the South Africans there with a LC-130 helping the Italians bring their helicopters back to NZ. Yeah, Pegasus has really become an international airport.
Unfortunately that same day one of the managers started having heart problems and needed to be Medevac'd. We waited a few hours while they helo'd him out to Pegasus and loaded him onto the plane. To save time I volunteered with ATO to help load the baggage onto the plane which got me some bonus points.
Since it's that time of the year, lots of great events have gone on. In the chapel, people got together and put on a "Charlie Brown's Christmas". I have to say it really started to put me in the holiday mood. I also joined the Christmas Choir where we preformed over the HF radio to South Pole and the field camps, at the Town Party, and at Midnight Mass. Also to get into the mood, a co-worker and I dressed up and delivered fuel around town signing Christmas songs. It's nice to put a smile on someones face. I don't have any pictures, but Bama and I also dressed up for Burger Bar the other night. It was hot cooking with all that stuff on but again, it cheered people up. Currently McM needs a little cheer. I mentioned before about one of the medevacs, well there has been a few of them lately. People are getting hurt and being sent home. One day last week they had to activate our "walking blood bank" after a fleet ops worker was run over with a trailer. Our softball tournament also sent a few people home and station management is now threatening to cancel the annual rugby game against NZ.For Softball I played on the Shuttle's team. We didn't win, but put up a good fight. I didn't do that well, but did hit a home run.
Since it's the holidays I must remember my families. There are so many wonderful people out there that have taken me in including, Obrien's, Campie's, Compton/Popovici's, and of course my own. I miss everyone and hope you all enjoy your holidays. Merry Christmas from Antarctica. 
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The Campie's missed you at Christmas this year...hope you're having fun, the pics are great! Merry Christmas :)
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