Don't Open Until Midwinter!

Goodie boxes in Antarctica are always a treat, but even more so during the long winter months of no-outside-mail. Thanks to our dear friend Robyn, we had package mail packages to open for Valentines Day, Easter, Midwinter Dinner and, yet to come, the 4th of July. Thanks to my forgetful brain, the packages were out of sight and mind until exactly the right moment.

Kris goes right for the pink fuzzies!

Cedar gasps at all the loot!

Clad in hot pink part glasses with a handful of miniature
glow sticks, Kris is ready to shake his booty!

MC looks on in wonder.

Jen tries on the leopard dress!

A purple masked villain?

Cedar, Jen and MC bargain, discuss and rummage through the goodies.

Cedar sports a pink plastic rosary gangster-style.

Kris tries, but his "gangster" needs work.

Jen checks out the lotions!

Ahhh...THANKS for the treats Robyn!!!

Wait...Chichi is BACK on the Ice?

Yes. I am indeed back on the Ice for my second Winter. After completing an entire year on the Ice (from September 2009 - September 2010), spending a month traveling in New Zealand, a week in Australia and enjoying 3-1/2 wonderful months in Colorado, I spent countless hours contemplating what I should do next.

Being able to travel and experience life in other parts of the world has long been on my list. Working in Antarctica helps make travel possible. The time I spent traveling this past year has been an incredible experience. And as a somewhat undecided thirty-something-year-old woman, the time to travel is now.
Part of my next dream involves India, where I hope to spend a month taking in the culture and learning some different meditation techniques. I'm specifically interested in an ashram established by my favorite Guru, Osho located in Pune. Though I am still researching possibilities.


And so begins another winter (Technically, I have been in "winter" for 14 out of the last 15 months - thank goodness for the green and warmth of NZ - and have another 8 months ahead of me, that makes 22 months or nearly TWO STRAIGHT YEARS of winter!) and my third season on the ice (summer/winter, winter).

I will be available on e-mail and Facebook and if you're feeling really ambitious, you can send flat-mail letters to:

My Name (Winterover 2011)
RPSC - McMurdo Station
PSC 469 Box 700
APO, AP 96599-1035

You will be able to send packages if you wish, but please don't send any until July as they will not be delivered until August.

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Until we meet again my friends...