McMurdo

Saturday afternoon we landed on the frozen water in the bay just East (?) of McMurdo...maybe one of the longest runways. The flight was extremely smooth as was the takeoff and landing -- not quite as smooth as an MD80 commercial flight. We loaded onto a shuttle that looks like one of the monster trucks from Bakersfield and were driven over and up to McMurdo Station.
We were dressed to the hilt, but the weather was only in the upper 20's (F) with no wind. As "night" fell, the air got cooler (teens F) though the sun remained superbright and a little lower on the south side of the sky. Here's a shot at about 11pm with the sun at about it's lowest point. Before that we were given briefings and met the heads of all the various support departments, given dorm assignments, and discovered that the cargo we'd shipped a month ago still had not arrived in Christchurch. Here's a pic of the innovation you see around here...it's like Eureka -- a very fun, exciting, and cool place.  Part of that is the isolation. And part is that any day the weather could turn dangerous, locking us down into whatever building we happen to be in. It makes it feel like we are in a moonbase.
We checked our gear, found our dorm rooms and changed into cooler clothes, had dinner. Then Jordan and I went to the "coffee house" for refreshment. The place was packed and conversation was saturating the air. Coffee and wine were served there.

Slept perfectly for 8 hours to Sunday morning, dreamt of the Ashtanga Yoga flier I saw on the bulletin board earlier...