Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Stuck in Chch

Bad weather in McMurdo meant that I received a phone call at 4:40 this morning telling me our flight was delayed three hours. After packing up all my bags and dragging them down to the lobby of the hotel along with the $130NZ in groceries that I bought yesterday, I find out that our flight was canceled for the day.

We were told a shuttle would pick us up at 9am for the trip out to the Travel office where we would get our per diem for the day. Within 45 minutes, we were back in the city center ($70 NZ richer) and have the rest of the day to ourselves. And it's sunny and warming up! What a nice little present just before we deploy!

Posted by Katie from the Ice @ 11:17 AM