Let the games begin!

Tonight was the kick-off of the Take Over Games of the year, meaning tournaments in table tennis, pool, fussball, darts as well as boot throwing, soccer (with pumkin-boots) and tug of war! Everyone was very excited! Me and Marlie had our first game of table tennis doubles, against Tobbe and SJ.. Although we put on our prettiest faces, nice pink tops and looots of pink lipstick, the guys seemed completely unaffected by our distracting efforts. We put up (what we think) a good resistance but in the end really had to let them win, since they have both been playing table tennis for years and it just wouldn't be fair to let them loose against two unexperienced girls. Tomorrow the games continue, for me and Tobbe that means pool and fussball.

SJ and Morgan playing fussball against Keith and Jo in the bar. Although quite an exciting game it was easy to see from the play which team had just spent a whole year at the base (although so has Morgan, but that was in the days before the fussball table was there!)

The games room

Earlier today we finally got hold of the crane, and could finish the work on replacing the stay ropes on the 'DVRAS' VLF antenna. The weather was perfect, we've had almost a week now of undisrupted sunshine (the sun doesn't set at night still, so really, it's shining on us all the time!), about -5 degC and not much wind... it's been lovely!

The VLF antenna and SJ at the top in the crane-'box', replacing stay ropes to keep the mast in place during antarctic winter storms.

I'm posting a photo of our lab too, for those of you who are curious what it looks like where we are, when we are not outside playing (ehrm, I mean working) in the snow..

Tobbe working in the top physics lab