green and light

This is our light room and as an extra treat we now have some healthy green plants growing. Its nice to go in and just stare at the flowers.

cool moon pics

Some recent moon shots

Happy Mothers Day!

For you Mommason!!!

and just a little more color

and some more color...

the beauty of a washer filled with yellow tye dye!

coloring the continent

another successful tye dye session here in Antarctica!!!

bondage bingo

We got a little carrie away with the "normal Wednesday night bingo" these guys sure livened it up!!!

Map of the Continent

I am down on the Ross Ice Shelf in the town of McMurdo. All the other town or camp names have people there, maybe not during the winter but definitly during the summer. The camp in between us and the South Pole is Vostok and that is the Russian Camp. To give you an idea of distance, the South Pole is roughly 800 miles from McMurdo.

Erebus Crater

This is the crater of the local and only active volcano on the continent Mt. Erebus

Shackletons Food

Nothing like preserved celery!
These are some of the things left behind by explorer Shackleton in 1917.

boots that they made out of some ship sails

fancy pants

I was getting tired of my plain brown carhartts, we wear them every single day. So I took the hot glue, sequins & glitter paint to them and think they look much better now!

Firewood Party

We are now in the dark down here at McMurdo, sun will rise again in late August or early September. So to really get in the mood we had a dark party and crowned the Prince & Princess of Darkness. I dressed up like the Southern Night Sky. Lots of glowing stars & pipe cleaners meant to look like the Aurora Borealis.

a few recent pics

Our life source down here, The Nalgene, we drink 4 or 5 of these a day here...its just sooooooooooo dry.
the staff at our wine tasting event
this was not taken super recently but its a cool shot of our town with volcano Erebus behind us

Easter on Ice

The Easter Bunny put on a big red and made it all the way down here for us. We awoke to Easter Baskets in front of all 200 rooms.

town and moon

These were taken over the past few days, we are down to about 4 hours of daylight a day. The sunrise is taking longer and longer and the sunset seems to be going quicker and quicker.