A 2 Day Weekend!

I'm laying here in bed listening to the wind blow and pound, what could be considered a 2 story double-wide, and thought I'd update you, whoever you are.
Last weekend was truly a weekend, we had the last day of one week and the first day of the next week off, if that's how you define a weekend. During the winters at the US Antarctica stations it is usually the first weekend of the month, April through September that they give the workers the traditional 2 day weekend. All other weeks are 6 days and 9 hours a day of work. So how did I spend mine. Saturday started off with, laundry! Yes I blew a perfectly grand Saturday morning doing laundry. This gave me a later start than I wanted to go hike and ski the glacier that sits right behind the station. With all the snow we have had recently I thought it was going to be a great day but as the day progressed so did the wind speed. The skiing was OK but I'm guessing it would have been better if I would have started 2 hours earlier. Well this 3 hour adventure left me plenty tuckered out and I'm remembering something about getting back making a tuna fish sandwich and falling asleep watching a movie in my room. The next day was an earlier morning, starting with bagels and lox with cream cheese and capers, yes, yum. I followed that by roasting some huehuetenango coffee beans. I was very excited to find out that Palmer Station had a coffee roaster and a few pounds of green coffee beans. By the way I think they roasted up very nicely. The green beans may not have been the freshest but the coffee tasted better than grinding beans roasted 2-4 months ago. Having that accomplished it was off to the glacier again this time to hike up down and out onto the Bonaparte peninsula. I chose snow shoes for this, although one can cross country ski most of the peninsula. The photos in the slide show are from these days on the glacier I hope someone enjoys them, I did. I made it back from the snow shoeing in time to catch a movie from 1995 called Underground. "This movie reflects the history of Yugoslavia since the beginning of WWII (and similar to all ex-communist countries) to the last horrible events in Balcanian countries. Behind the comedy is hidden the pain of whole generations, which have suffered WWII, The Cold War, the war in Yugoslavia, the communism, the treachery of their own leadership, the fall." I highly recommend it, even though it runs a bit long at 170 minutes for those use to the 90 minute movies of Hollywood. I should also mention you have to work a bit since it is subtitled. Let me see.........I think that evening was another early to bed but I could be wrong. That's all for now, later today I may post again and add some fabulous, my opinion, photos of a rarre sighting of nacreous clouds here at Palmer. Cheers Enjoy the slide show