Here come the Tourists!!!!!!!

Yes the tourists are coming. Apparently every year cruise ships full of really really rich people come to the edge of the sea ice and then helicopter into Mcmurdo. Yes Helicopter because these ships have their own helicopters. Woowww. I mean seriously those cruises must be really really expensive. Oh well whatever floats your boat. So that should be fun.
The DA and kitchen holiday party was the other night. It was apparently ugly sweater but I didn't have time to go to skua so I just wore one I had brought. Skua is the random free thrift store at McMurdo. Basically when you leave or if you just have extra stuff you don't want you donate it to skua so they have clothes dishes movies ect. I swear it is like a treasure hunt every time you go. Yay. Anyway the party also was a white elephant gift exchange. But there were extra presents so mine didn't get picked :(. OH well I gave it to one of my coworkers and she really like it so I am happy. It also started SNOWING! which was really exciting. It has actually been snowing on and off for the last few days.
Life down here is fun. I spend most evenings after work watching a movie or tv with my coworkers. We watched Teenage Mutant Ninga Turtles last night. I had never seen that movie. And we watched Clercks and Clerks II the other night. So I am getting to know some of my coworkers and some of the people on station. I might get to go help launch a weather balloon in the next few days or week. And I am going Line dancing tonight! I know wierd right? Apparently there are all kinds of social things to do down here. There is a boxing class and a zumba class and a stiching group. It is actually quite cool.
I also got to go see the Hut which was pretty cool. It is a building that the first explorers down here lived and worked in. There are all sorts of really cool antique stuff from when these men lived in the cabin. It smelled really bad tho becuase they had some dead seal or something in there. I think that is fro the ambiance and a few of those seal parts are probably like decades old. EWWw hehe. Anway I got pictures of some live seals tho. That was totally so much better than dead ones. so that cheered me up.
Anyway that is all that is going on right now. Life is good and work is really fun and entertaining. The people down here are really cool. And nuts so I fit right in.