Happy Thanksgiving to all back in the States!  It is Friday the 25th here.  We will be celebrating Thanksgiving tomorrow, Saturday, in order to keep the workers here on schedule.  I happened to be walking by the McMurdo "Store" yesterday when they broke out a couple boxes of bottles of highly coveted red wine..   I bought one to have with Turkey dinner tomorrow and then watched as all the bottles were purchased and disappeared within about 5 min!  limited supply...

Starting to feel like we are stuck at the Hotel California, we checked in, still waiting to leave.  Weather was bad yesterday and as a result we once again had our flight cancelled, now it is Friday and the pilots and crew do not want to risk missing Thanksgiving tomorrow here in McMurdo and so we are not flying today either.  Sunday is a day off so the earliest we will make it to our field camp will be Monday!  Hard to believe I will have been here 10 days without even getting to our field site.  Things have the potential to move really slow...

Weather forecast that was posted here yesterday..

1/24/2011 4:22:44 AM
Low pressure continues to dominate the region with periods of up and down weather this morning, becoming ugly late morning into this afternoon in snow and blowing snow, which will reduce the visibility to marginal conditions. Expect this scenario to persist into Friday night.


I put together a kind of fun gallery of local "Culture"  have a look at the link here.  I annotated the photos a bit, most depict some version of irony about this place with an incredible amount of creativity.  I threw in cool pics of big trucks too :)

http://pyrat.smugmug.com/Other/Antarctica2011-MacTown-Culture/20252511_Vwv3qk#1601052875_DTQQQXT