<\/a>Chilling in the gardens <\/div>
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<\/a>There was a big band festival in the park <\/div>
Punniest name: Big Band Wolf<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Wandering Around <\/div>
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<\/a>Group tree hug <\/div>
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<\/a>Jamil and Sasha <\/div>
After they forced us to pose, I return the favour<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Sasha and Anne <\/div>
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<\/a>Flight terminal <\/div>
Ed and I line up to check in<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Anne waits in line <\/div>
She was behind due to a later bus<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Waiting for the bus <\/div>
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<\/a>Boarding <\/div>
C-17: you're a really big airplane<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>On board! <\/div>
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<\/a>Very exciting <\/div>
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<\/a>Jump seats <\/div>
Strapped to the wall<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Comfort pallets <\/div>
They also add rows of airline seats instead of cargo<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Random ice <\/div>
Through one of the two windows we could use<\/div><\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>First sight of land (on the horizon) <\/div>
A couple hours later<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>The cockpit <\/div>
Where they hoard all the windows<\/div><\/div>
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<\/a>Lots of controls <\/div>
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<\/a>Disembarking <\/div>
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<\/a>So many directions to look <\/div>
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<\/a>Directions to look, plus things not to drop <\/div>
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BIG NEWS: we finally landed in Antarctica! We were in Christchurch so long that the next wave of SPIDERers showed up. We had one day of overlap in New Zealand, then Ed, Anne, and I caught a C-17 flight the next morning. As soon as the plane dropped us off, it went back for the others (and some precious cargo). They arrived this morning. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6390"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6390"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6393,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6390\/revisions\/6393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/droppingballast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}