11-02
The last week has been filled with parties. One of my best friends down here, Chandra, who works for the field safety program left a couple of days ago. She did a short contract this year so that she could be back earlier to teach her wilderness first responder courses and other outdoor safety things. We originally bonded last year when she would ride front seat in my delta when I took the Happy Camper classes that she taught out into the field over field biology (she got her master's at Western Washington). It was sad to see her go, but her boyfriend Cory threw a good party for her at the BFC building complete with lots of White Russians.
The next day, one of the grantee advisers threw a cool surprise birthday party for her grad student Ross. It was a fun party with all my favorite grantees at Hut 10. One of them had brought glacial ice, so we had whiskey on glacial ice
Then of course we had our big Halloween party. I went as Michael Phelps, complete with his blue shoes, jammer, goggles, phelps cap (homemade), headphones, and gold medals, though I decided not to shave my legs (you have to have some protection from the biting Antarctic wind. Plus 6 weeks of insanity workout to try and acquire a swim body similar to Phelps'.
My friend Dacre had one of my favorite costumes. A Kress Vehicle transformer. Cassa was a jackalope and part of the Noah's Ark Rejects group..animals that were rejected by Noah's ark: jackalope, unicorn, mermaid, trilobite, centaur. Elisha and Steph went as amazonian women. They are both very tall and thin (above 6 feet) and they added really high heels (I think 8inches) so that they towered over everyone. Then they did their hair and makeup and wore clothes that are apparently amazonian
The party wasn't as wild as last year (people think maybe bc of all the talk of reducing alcohol and bc of building code issues), but still lots of fun
Last Sunday it was actually warm enough out on the sea ice to go for a skate ski. The temps had climbed to the high single digits and the wind was fairly light. So Elisha and I skate skied out to the new location of the icerunway, our first ski of the year. This year the ice runway is in a completely different location than last year because of some huge cracks in the sea ice where it had been last summer.
Here's a few pics from Halloween. Hopefully more to come later.
The last week has been filled with parties. One of my best friends down here, Chandra, who works for the field safety program left a couple of days ago. She did a short contract this year so that she could be back earlier to teach her wilderness first responder courses and other outdoor safety things. We originally bonded last year when she would ride front seat in my delta when I took the Happy Camper classes that she taught out into the field over field biology (she got her master's at Western Washington). It was sad to see her go, but her boyfriend Cory threw a good party for her at the BFC building complete with lots of White Russians.
The next day, one of the grantee advisers threw a cool surprise birthday party for her grad student Ross. It was a fun party with all my favorite grantees at Hut 10. One of them had brought glacial ice, so we had whiskey on glacial ice
Then of course we had our big Halloween party. I went as Michael Phelps, complete with his blue shoes, jammer, goggles, phelps cap (homemade), headphones, and gold medals, though I decided not to shave my legs (you have to have some protection from the biting Antarctic wind. Plus 6 weeks of insanity workout to try and acquire a swim body similar to Phelps'.
My friend Dacre had one of my favorite costumes. A Kress Vehicle transformer. Cassa was a jackalope and part of the Noah's Ark Rejects group..animals that were rejected by Noah's ark: jackalope, unicorn, mermaid, trilobite, centaur. Elisha and Steph went as amazonian women. They are both very tall and thin (above 6 feet) and they added really high heels (I think 8inches) so that they towered over everyone. Then they did their hair and makeup and wore clothes that are apparently amazonian
The party wasn't as wild as last year (people think maybe bc of all the talk of reducing alcohol and bc of building code issues), but still lots of fun
Last Sunday it was actually warm enough out on the sea ice to go for a skate ski. The temps had climbed to the high single digits and the wind was fairly light. So Elisha and I skate skied out to the new location of the icerunway, our first ski of the year. This year the ice runway is in a completely different location than last year because of some huge cracks in the sea ice where it had been last summer.
Here's a few pics from Halloween. Hopefully more to come later.
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