Pictures of Thanksgiving on Ice...we were frozen turkeys.

Thanksgiving dinner: These are our adventurous friends Austin and Amalia. They have traveled all over the world. Austin is on Mike's cargo team and I work with Amalia. We spend a lot of time with them doing things like playing cards, volleyball, and hiking. Amalia is also going to try to teach us how to cross country ski. Check out that beard and moustache on Mike! It is about 4 weeks old. He and Austin are in the beard growing contest that is judged on Jan 1st.

These are 3 of the girls I work with. Belinda, the blonde in back, is my supervisor and she has worked here for 5 summers and 3 winters. She is very upbeat, patient, and fun to work for. Susie is the girl in red and she lives in Colorado so hopefully we will see her again.

Thanksgiving Celebration:
Thanksgiving has come and gone and we had our first pangs of homesickness. However, for being at the bottom of the world, the celebration here was outstanding. We ate most of the traditional foods and even more...turkey, stuffing, asparagus, shrimp cocktail, homemade breads, salad, cranberry relish, apple & pumpkin & pecan pies, pumpkin cheesecake, chocolate torte. It was a feast to say the least. They even left out leftovers so people could make sandwiches at midnight. Most people dressed up for the occasion which meant wearing your parka over a dress and hose and walking in sensible shoes to the galley and then changing into heels. Mike wore a nice shirt and slacks.

After dinner, we changed into our hiking clothes and went for a 2 1/2 hour hike around the Armitage loop on the ice. After our hike, we went back for a second meal. We are definitely not wasting away here. It's a challenge to not gain weight because the majority of foods served on a daily basis are starches.