What I did for fun at the South Pole.

You can't have all work with no fun at Pole. So here are some pics and a video of what I did for fun.
We can make snow angels.

We went out and watched the C-17 do the once a year air drop. This was the same plane that I flew on from Christchurch to Antarctica. They air drop 60,000lbs of food and cargo in 3 passes at 1,000 feet. Then they did a fly by of the station at 300 feet.

We can hang out in the gym and play volleyball, basketball, dodge ball, or what ever you want to play.
We liked to sit out on out deck at 1am after work and listen to our new Gettoblaster that they ordered 5 years ago and they got it when I was there. That night the temp was around -10 degrees. That is Buttercup (Yes he likes to be called Buttercup. Not Butter not cup just Buttercup.)in the black and green. He worked at Pole this summer as the Lead Fuels Operator aka one of my bosses. This is Amanda she works in Waste. She deals with all of out trash.
After hanging out on the deck we took the snow mo out to the end of the ski way. Well the snow mo only seats 2 so i jumped in the sled and took some video.

So what happened here is Buttercup slowed down a little bit and turned a little bit then started to speed up alot. You can see in the video when this happened I knew I was in trouble. Good thing I was wearing my helmet.

We would play Bear, Cowboy, Ninga for some crappy job nobody wanted to do. Like refill the Premix Tank. Dan turned with the Bear and I was a 6 shootin cowboy that shot the Bear and won. I still helped him the Premix.

This pic was taken on Dec 10 at 2:24am. This Buttercup working as the Postmaster for the U.S. Post Office at the South Pole. It is a official Post Office. He even had to take a short test to work there. But why was the Post Office open at that hour. It was open for the swing shift that got off at midnight.

One day Buttercup and I went into the Old Dome to check it out and look at what we found.


They use it for "cold" storage.

I know were in the south but I think this is a little much.

Hard as a rock!



And best of all Christmas Dinner. To bad I left before then.
My first Thanksgiving Dinner at the South Pole looked liked this. We had all the normal Thanksgiving food.

After a meal like that I had to go to my office.

That Olivia Newton John is one hot mama!

The couple nights before I was to leave I had three last things to do. First was to turn on the sana. Second and third was to go take some more pics out at the Pole. Here the tv scroll in the galley. I'm not in that pic.

Sweet sunglasses and Hawaiian shorts.

Sorry the second pole pic is "X" rated.

This was as close as I could get with my GPS.
Well that was my time at the South Pole. Please feel free to comment.