Tara with the Canadian chocolate cake!
Canadian favorite (top right)...poutine!
One of the Summit camp generators.
Me, Jin (GA Tech, white coat) and Louisa (Michigan Tech) in the underground FREEEEZER!
Cool looking ice crystal along the entrance to the underground freezer.
I feel like a Million Bucks! After eight days, I caved in tonight at about 11:30pm. I was contemplating showering as I was walking to the Big House and once I was inside, I started talking to a few people about showering. I didn't want to be the first to shower out of the people that came to Summit on my flight, but all three of the ones I spoke with had already showered! So I went to my tent and packed up a change of clothes and also gathered my dirty clothes to wash.
I attempted to time myself (everyone is suppose to shoot for 2 minutes of water time), but I am not use to my new Timex watch Rob bought for me the day before I left. When I turned off the water to scrub my shampoo, I also stopped my watch. Instead of it stopping, however, it went to lap 2 and began timing! So I figure I was around 3 minutes. Personally, it is much more difficult for people with long hair (and I don't say "women" because some of the male staff have long hair...i'm talking they braid it) because it takes about a minute to get the shampoo out!
HAPPY CANADA DAY! Today Summit camp celebrated Canada Day with our lone Canadian Tara. For lunch, we had poutine, a popular Canadian snack: french fries, gravy, topped with cheese curds along with ham, homemade mac and cheese, salad, asparagus scone, and chocolate chip cookies. For dinner, we had "momma's chicken" (and boyyyyyy...mama can cook), mashed potatoes (mmmmmmmmm soooooooooooo gooooood), asparagus, salad, honey-ginger baked pears, and chocolate cake with homemade vanilla frosting with blueberries. This was my favorite meal thus far because it reminded me of home and Thanksgiving...and plus I just LOVE mashed taters (and they're made just like ours...just TERRRRIBLE!).
After dinner, Tara sang the Canadian national anthem in French. Each of the four tables also sang (or attempted to sing) the anthem in French. Jocque, a Frenchman but attending the University of Colorado, judged all of the tables. And of course, our table won!!! Everyone was so impressed with my voice...haha yeah right!
Nemo flew every 3 hours today! He was quite busy, and we did have to add a little bit of Helium at the end of the day, but we are just so happy that our patchwork is still holding up. I have been busy flying the tethersonde (Nemo), processing data, and writing code for some stability parameters using the tethersonde and Swiss meteorological tower data. We have been pretty busy, but are making a lot of headway and still find a little bit of time for some fun.
Today, we had a false alarm with the Flux building (University of Colorado and Michigan Tech). The NO (very toxic) sensor went off, and we saw the red blinking warning light from one of or windows at satellite camp. We radioed the Big House, but when they tried to contact the Flux building nobody responded. They asked us (me, Craig, Katrine) to go check on them. Luckily they were okay and told us it was a false alarm because the senosor was reading 0 ppb of NO and they also said NO has a very sharp and distinct smell (which we took their word for because they are chemists). Whew! That was close!
Smell-oh-Meter: 1...Zestfully Clean!!!!!!!!!!
Current Weather:
Temperature: 3F
Wind Chill: -12F
Yall take care ya here?
5 comments:
I have been reading your blog while on the night shift and it makes me soooo hungry!
Miss ya lots :)
-David
The poutine sound good but I think if they put some good homemade chili and bacon bits on top of all of that it would really make that dish sing, if you know what I mean. It would be "slap your momma good"
Good to here the smell-oh-meter is back to 1.
Love you,
Rob
Hey there Mrs. Clean. As I look at all the picture I am amazed at how much is up at the camp. How long has it been there? How many trips to Home Depot? What is the newest building or addition? How many cooks? Should I have applied for the teacher person that helps ya'll out? Is it fun doing what she does? Love, Curious MOM
Yay for showers! Were the mashed potatoes as good as mine?
XOXO
Callie
sorry for making everyone so hungry! the mashed potatoes were good..but not as good as yours callie! i did tell everyone at my table that "my friend callie makes even better mashed potatoes!"
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