Barb with boxes and boxes of peanut m&m and her personalized m&m box. Cari, you are the best!!!

Unloading skidoo fuel barrels from the resupply Twin Otter flight.

Jim digging out our science tent. You can barely see our camp in the background.

We woke up to howling 20knot winds and swirling snow. Argh… our resupply mission got delayed from 8:30am to 2:30pm. At 2pm the wind had increased to 25 knots and the windchill was at -45F. The snow was drifting like crazy and we lost some of the horizon. We stared to shovel out our tents, again, and the empty fuel barrels, empty propane tanks, and human waste buckets that the resupply mission was going to take back. We were very anxious that the Twin Otter plane would not land at all under these conditions. But at 3pm we heard the wonderful noise of an engine and lo and behold there was the little plane fighting its way to our camp despite these conditions. Twin Otter plane pilots are incredible! It is amazing how excited one can get about seeing an airplane in the sky and even more so how exciting it is to see people other than the 3 companions we spent the last 17 days with in the deep field. Civilization!!! It still exists. Somewhere. The pilots were a bit baffled why anyone would camp out here on the plateau under these weather conditions. After we enthusiastically explained our science mission they just stared at us, then nodded, and started unloading the plane. I’m sure they were as excited about meteorites as we are, they just didn’t know how to express their excitement. And now we are stocked up on fuel and propane gas, and best of all we got 2 packages from the curatorial staff at the Smithsonian delivered (THANK YOU CARI) filled with m&m’s. To be exact: 384 packages of peanut m&m’s total plus a personalized m&m package for each of us. We are here in the deep field for another 2.5-3 weeks, so that means we will have to eat at least 5 packages of peanut m&m’s each every day to finish them all by the time we leave. And with all the sugar in our blood we will never have to sleep again, so behold Antarctica, we will search and recover meteorites day and night from now on 🙂