Christmas in MacTown
Christmas never truly feels like Christmas unless you are with your family. However, if you can't be with your family than hopefully you've got good friends to share the holidays with.
We normally work a six day week with Sundays off, except for holidays when we are lucky enough to get two days off in a row. Saturday night was the big holiday party at the heavy shop. All of the equiptment is cleared out and the entire day is spent decorating. Each department is responsible for creating a decoration that must be at least 3'x 3'to display at the holiday party. I don't know what I was thinking but, instead of making a 3 foot by 3 foot card board cut out of a Chritmas tree or a candy cane or something easy like that, I suggested that we build a giant, life sized version of Candy Land and call it MACLAND!
Well, it did prove to be more work than we had expected but it was by far the best decoration at the party. To play the game you could chose to either use yourself as the playing piece or chose one of four bigger than lifesized penguins made out of tri-wall cardboard...check it out.
Setting up the board...
Finishing touches...
Later at the party...
The party started at 7:30 that night. Good times and great friends.
Tracy, myself, Leah and Alison...
The two in the back left making the funny faces are Tracy and Addie, both my roommates and both from Wisconsin (however, Tracy now lives in Juneau, Alaska and Addie is going to school in Denver to become a baker), in the back right is Laura who was back at McMurdo for the weekend. She came to McMurdo with us but then got offered a job at the South Pole over the winter as "thee" engineer. In front, Leah, Alison and me!
Two days later...the only picture I have on Christmas day is of us drinking mimosas before brunch. Left to right...Tracy, Leah, Alison, Me and Etosha...
We normally work a six day week with Sundays off, except for holidays when we are lucky enough to get two days off in a row. Saturday night was the big holiday party at the heavy shop. All of the equiptment is cleared out and the entire day is spent decorating. Each department is responsible for creating a decoration that must be at least 3'x 3'to display at the holiday party. I don't know what I was thinking but, instead of making a 3 foot by 3 foot card board cut out of a Chritmas tree or a candy cane or something easy like that, I suggested that we build a giant, life sized version of Candy Land and call it MACLAND!
Well, it did prove to be more work than we had expected but it was by far the best decoration at the party. To play the game you could chose to either use yourself as the playing piece or chose one of four bigger than lifesized penguins made out of tri-wall cardboard...check it out.
Setting up the board...
Finishing touches...
Later at the party...
The party started at 7:30 that night. Good times and great friends.
Tracy, myself, Leah and Alison...
The two in the back left making the funny faces are Tracy and Addie, both my roommates and both from Wisconsin (however, Tracy now lives in Juneau, Alaska and Addie is going to school in Denver to become a baker), in the back right is Laura who was back at McMurdo for the weekend. She came to McMurdo with us but then got offered a job at the South Pole over the winter as "thee" engineer. In front, Leah, Alison and me!
Two days later...the only picture I have on Christmas day is of us drinking mimosas before brunch. Left to right...Tracy, Leah, Alison, Me and Etosha...
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