Breathe in the fresh air

It’s Wednesday morning and I just went outside for the first time since Sunday afternoon. Crazy I know, but everything I need here at McMurdo is in the same building. And by the time I get off work I don’t really want to put all my ECW gear on just to go for a stroll outside. Not anywhere interesting either, just up and down between the buildings, because if you want to go do any hiking at all you have to go take the outdoor training class, which has only been held while I was working. Sad. No hiking at MM for me. There is a lovely semi-large hill that is close that I very much would have liked to hike up, but, there is no time for that because…..I’m flying out tomorrow! Hooray! I get to go on the first flight down to the pole this season! It should be really interesting because I hear the winter-overs are a little weird when the first people get there for the summer. It has just been the fifty of them for about 8 months so they feel slightly invaded when the summer people get there. Thankfully for them, a couple of years ago the company started flying smaller planes in to start with so they could get people in earlier. So they will send I think ten basler planes in, one per day, and then in November when the weather warms up(so to speak) they will send in the big planes which are the Hercs or LC130’s. Unfortunately for those of us going on the baslers, we can only take one small carry on, mine weighs about 25lbs, with us because the planes can’t hold that much weight. So that means the rest of our bags will arrive with the hercs, in NOVEMBER. It will be interesting, me and my one pair of pants and couple of shirts. *Sigh* Oh well, I shall survive. J
For the last couple of days I have just been working, they put us on full time after the first day which we only worked for half of. It has not been to bad though, except for the first full day I worked when I made a salad that took me the better part of the day to do, and we are talking like 6 hours here, because it was so huge and involved. There were so many steps with it, I swear it felt like I did not get anything done that day. It has been much better since then though, and the days have passed quickly. I am glad though to be moving on, I’m ready to get settled in my room at pole, not have any roommates, and get into a routine with work and everything else too.
Okay, so about the pictures—I guess I was trying to upload too many at a time so it was freaking out on me, and wouldn’t let me do anything at all. I’m going to work on that after I get off work, which I need to head to now. Ta Ta.