Our Welcome Signage to the Halloween Party
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McMurdo's beauties!
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The Crary Science Lab touch tank...really!
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Friends
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The winning costume...a 'one night stand.' Very creative!
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This is the Piston Bully we rode up Crater Hill
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The great view of our airfield from Crater Hill002
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View from Crater Hill
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The view of town from Crater Hill
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Views of Mr. Erebus walking up to Crater Hill
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Yes, Alec was working that day!
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See...working can be fun!
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Marci at the bottom of the planet...ALMOST!
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The 'SHADOW SHOT'
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The start of our hike up Crater Hill
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It started so easily.
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Beautiful scenery, hugh?001
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Beautiful scenery, hugh?002
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Don't they look like 'Simpsons' clouds?
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Halfway there...001
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Halfway there...002
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Aren't they cute?
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This is why I love this place.001
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This is why I love this place.002
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Thank you Alec for taking us up here.
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The Girls trying to make snow angels in the crater of ice
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The Girls...showing off their stuff.002
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Snow angels didn't work, but we could be Rockett's!
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We had to lick the ice...it was COLD!
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This is where we almost lost Linda to a crevase...OY!001
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This is where we almost lost Linda to a crevase...OY!002
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More beauty
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More beauty
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Yes, Alec is still working!
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The Girls
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Deep in thought...
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Everyone ran down the hill...FAST!
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We all made it back safely
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Eco-Friendly...even down here.
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It was a race to the top.
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This was really on the trail!
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This was really on the trail!
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Linda and Aaron (half jewish) on the first night.
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Second night...
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Third night...
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Fourth night...
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Fifth night...
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Sixth night...
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Seventh night...
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Eight Crazy Nights!
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Multi Cultural McMurdo!
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Let the party begin!
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Fun with bubbles
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The girls of building 201; Joselyn, Marci, and Linda
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The spread...no one went hungry001
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Hand braided challah, just for us!
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Friends from all over came to celebrate...001
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Friends from all over came to celebrate...002
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Friends from all over came to celebrate...003
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Friends from all over came to celebrate...004
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Friends from all over came to celebrate...005
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Friends from all over came to celebrate...006
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Friends from all over came to celebrate...007
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Friends from all over came to celebrate...008
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Friends from all over came to celebrate...009
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Friends from all over came to celebrate...010
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A thrilling game of dreidel
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I decided to share the gelt with everyone
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Sharing the Hannukah traditions with our friends.
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Friends from all over came to celebrate...011
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Friends from all over came to celebrate...012
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Ann & Peggy learn about the story of Hannukah
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Friends from all over came to celebrate...013
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It was past Davie's bedtime and Lou was there to watch over him.
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Another exciting game of dreidel.
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More fun with bubbles...
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Danny couldn't stop playing with the bubbles.
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Friends from all over came to celebrate...014
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Friends from all over came to celebrate...015
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Friends from all over came to celebrate...016
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Friends from all over came to celebrate...017
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Friends from all over came to celebrate...018
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Friends from all over came to celebrate...019
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Friends from all over came to celebrate...020
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Friends from all over came to celebrate...021
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Danny recruited others to play with the bubbles.
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Friends from all over came to celebrate...022
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Friends from all over came to celebrate...023
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Friends from all over came to celebrate...024
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Friends from all over came to celebrate...025
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We didn't segregate and invited jews and non jews alike.
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Cute, aren't they?
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Our dreidels; wooden, paper, and plastic.
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The boys doing our dishes. They were well trained!
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Our limo for the our day's adventures; the piston bully.
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The road to the dive shack.
It was a little bumpy. I should have worn a sports bra!

It was also a little icy.
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The dive shack and piston bully.
This was where we spent our day. We took the piston bully there and stayed in the dive shack for the morning.

Justin, my dive tending buddy.
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One of the divers, preparing to go.
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Ryan, the other diver, getting suited up.
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Inside the dive shack, the divers get ready to go even farther south.
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The hole...looks dark and COLD!
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Ready. Set. GO!
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Don't forget the camera...!
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Mama and baby seal. It was lunch time.
Before we went in for lunch, we got to visit another dive shack that was very close to some nursing seals.

Two little ones coming up for some air.
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Seriously...this one was hilarious!
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This one was posing for the camera.
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More posing, but it's s/he cute?
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Motherly bonding time.
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What seals do best; sunbathe.
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Some pressure ridges in the scenery.
A beautiful and natural part of the area.

A picture is worth 1000 words.
Here, there are two skua (the McMurdo version of a pigeon) searching for dinner and soon realize they are nearing seal excrement. And the seal does nothing.

More pressure ridges along our journey.
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That's my fro...proof that I did do the POLAR PLUNGE.
Yes, it was freakin' cold!

Discovery Hut...a few feet away from Hut Point
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The Welcome plaque to the Discovery Hut
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I guess biscuits were popular down there. There were a lot of these boxes.
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Biscuits for Dogs...there were treats for everyone!
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They must have packed as if they would be gone for a while.
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It's dinner time!
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Only the finest labels for the best in fashion.
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A vegetarian could not survive.
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Enough oatmeal for a year, alteast! Quaker must be jealous.
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You have to have a little sugar with the oatmeal.
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It must have been laundry day. Notice the biscuits in the background?
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Not sure what this is, but it looked picture worthy.
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More provisions.
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A lot of this too! Maybe they even had Bailey's for their hot cocoa?
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The Welcome Committee (of one dead seal). It's been there for a LONG time.
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