Summer is here and so am I!

I have experienced no other feeling like walking out the back of the Air Force C-17 and stepping onto the ice. We touched down in the middle of the bay , and I felt like I was walking onto the moon. Coming in on the plane in spent as much time as I could by one of the three windows on the plane. I HAVE SEEN NOTHING IN MY LIFE AS BEAUTIFUL AS WHAT I SAW TODAY! To see cracking frozen ocean below you and the Transantarctic mountains behind it takes your breath away. I have also felt no other cold like I feel here. When you walk outside the wind rips you apart, and I will be working outside nearly all day every day. The science station here is cozy, but feels a bit like college life. I live in a small dorm room with two other guys. There is a crazy mix of people here, because it is essentially it's own town down here for 5 months a year. Work begins tomorrow and I will learn everything I need to know to thrive out in the butt cold every day. McMurdo looks down across the bay (it's frozen) to beautiful mountains and there are plenty of mountains around the station for me to climb in my time off. It is light 24 hours a day right now, and it feels weird to get ready for bed when it looks like noon outside. I am simply amazed at what I have seen and cannot wait to see what adventures will come.