gear issue

After a relaxing 4 hours of sleep woke up and went to the US Antarctic center for cold weather gear outfitting. Spent the morning trying on parkas gloves etc and packing. I call them the "holy fuck it's cold" clothes. Flights to the ice have been backed up for the last few weeks due to bad weather at Mcmurdo. We're the 5th flight to head down this season and so far they've only landed 1 plane. They're stacking the flights up though and right now it looks like we'll be leaving at 0600 local time Saturday morning.
Getting ready to head out to town and do the tourist thing. NZ is more beautiful than I imagined and that's just the view from my crappy next to the airport hotel room!