When I was at the South Pole the post office wasn’t open so I couldn’t get my passport stamped. Problem solved. One of my friends was headed there to do some work on the phone lines so he took my passport which now has the official stamp from the South Pole Post Office.

It has been snowing here the last couple of days. The snow flakes are the big fluffy kind that gently wafts down to the ground. It really gets you in the Christmas spirit.

Last night I attended a winter solstice party. I tried some hot buttered rum for the first time. Thankfully I had to work this morning or I might have had more than one of those. I also tried a German spiced wine called gluevine (that’s how it was pronounced but I’m sure not how it’s spelled) it was also very good. The party was held in a building we call Hut 10. It looks like a two bedroom bungalow from the outside. Inside you enter through a coat room/mud room into a large family room. To the left is the kitchen that contains a mish mash of pots, pans, plates, glasses, silverware, etc. I was helping in the kitchen to prepare the hot buttered rum and the meatballs. Down the hall are a couple of bedrooms(one of which Ann Curry stayed in while she was here). The hut has the feeling of a mid-western home and with a few decorations kept us all in the holiday spirit.

The choir has pulled together nicely and we have our first performance at the town Christmas Party Sunday night.