The countdown is almost ready to begin

Well things are going to slow down here now. People (non firefighters) are beging to redeploy back home on January 16 up through fed 28th. The "polar Sea" is now in port, this is the coazst guard ice breaker that is breaking up the channel for fuel ship in front of Mcmurdo. It has been fun because there are about 100 people on that ship that are fairly close in age to us so we get to meet new people. I met a couple guys that want to trade fire shirts so that will work out. The picture above is the ship right in front of Mcmurdo breaking up the ice. We all were able to go tour it last night and it was actually pretty nice on the inside. The bar was about double capacity because they all could come into town and drink. The view is definatly changing because ever since ive been here everywhere around mcmurdo has been frozen ice, we even had our old runway on it and now that the ships are breaking it up we are actually realizing that its water.

Other than that nothing new is going on down here. Ive cut a little weight over the past few weeks, so well see if i gain it back, the food here is good and ther sure is alot of it.

Ill be heading to new zealand on feb. 16 and from there im not sure when ill be home exactly so i will be seeing you guys real soon!