Thanksgiving in Antarctica

My flight brought be down just in time for the base’s Saturday Thanksgiving feast (because in McMurdo, all celebrations take place on Saturday). But, naturally, we didn’t take the day off. Instead we were busy preparing for Monday, on which we plan to go out to the dance floor to test pointing sensors. (And in preparation for which everyone else had been working very hard prior to my arrival.)

I’m glad to be back at LDB.

Barth

Has a wrench

ACS wiring

Through hole added to the floor

Juan's cave

Which he soon vacated, because it was getting hot inside

The cookie monster

I know Tristan posted something like this, but I had no choice

Mylarizing

Juan neatens up the bottom of the scoop

Retapping

The trick with having everything painted, is that all your holes become too small

Enzo screws the solar panels down

Assembled solar arrays

Sled ride

Tyr pulls me back to the highbay from the storage area

Enzo and Mt Erebus

Grinning because he has a snowball

Throwing snowball

Natalie finished some work on the star camera baffle

Say hello to my little friend

Thanksgiving

The BLAST-Pol team (minus Giles, who had left on the plane that brought be down)

Dessert

One of each, of course!

Also, while they were testing the cryostat’s window-covering shutter, I took some images to stitch into an open-closed gif: