Christmas 2013

Living in Antarctica away from family and friends can be a trying experience, so the Div certainly do their best to make us all feel like a family and show us a good time. Christmas day is a special time here starts like most other days, we had a brunch at 11 followed by a visit from Santa (bit suss) and Kris Krinkle presents, and of course a couple of home brews to wash down the chips and assorted nuts available.

This was all followed by an afternoon of darts where a few stories and past history are discussed and of course, solving the many problems associated with the world in general, so no different to back in Australia, oh and plenty of ice and snow around that's a bit different from laying back in the pool throwing a few coldies down, anyway, dinner was a formal affair and the spread was to die for, prawns, oysters, pig on the spit, various meats and salads, pastries (yum) and complimentary wine and port on every table, so this event was shaping up to be pretty big.

I should also mention that we had the pleasure of entertaining five Russian Geologists who are woking in Vestofolds and I also had the privilege of international relations and had them at our table, now I thought, this is going to interesting, in broken English and hand signals we worked out how to say cheers in Russian, (which was said many times) demonstrated how to peel prawns to ensure you get the maximum amount of prawns in the allotted time, and had a great night. So being away from home was made as enjoyable as possible.

Nina's bar, plenty of time spent here, Nina's got it's name from the last Husky to be at Davis station. After the dogs were no longer in Antarctica, some of the expeditioners thought this was unfair, so they "found" a fibreglass dog, very similar to the Blind Society dogs, anyway, the dog is named "Sway" and has travelled around the Antarctic ever since, she is covered in stickers, from all over the world, has 2 wooden legs and I believe is now on her way to Casey Station omn the Aurora Australis after spending the past 2 years at Mawson Station.