Happy Thanksgiving from Antarctica! The official Thanksgiving meal here is Saturday night (tonight) and all of the support people that work here get Saturday and Sunday off expect for the hard working dining hall people. CSBF doesn't normally take days off down here unless the weather shuts us down, and it did for half a day yesterday. Winds of 30-40 mph and blowing snow made it too dangerous to make the 40 minute drive to work. The weather improved in the afternoon enough to let folks go out for a while. It was bad today (20-30 mph) but just good enough to get to work. The weather has worsened out there now and is 30-40 mph, but will improve later today. We will have our Thanksgiving meal at 7:00 pm tonight in McMurdo. I will actually be staying in McMurdo today as I am still recovering from a bout of pneumonia. The folks at McMurdo Medical have taken good care of me as I go see them every couple of days and I am about 50% better now. I should be fully recovered by the time the weather allows us to do outside payload testing early next week.
A guy I work with was able to take a day trip tour to the west side of Ross island last week where there are some penguin colonies (penguins are rare in McMurdo and out at LDB). So here's a pic of an Adele penguin!
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What amazing work you do in an area most of us have only read about. To your improving health and a Happy Thanksgiving.
Liz
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