Today I slept in till 2 in the afternoon. I think a lot of the Coast Guard would be jealous of me since they have more of a scheduled routine where they wake up before 8 in the morning. I ended up going to bed around 4 in the morning. Since I woke up this late I missed breakfast and lunch. We are still taking sea showers, which are showers for only 2 minutes. You rinse yourself. Then you scrub down with the shower off. And then you rinse off the soap. Sound fun. I'm used to taking a nice ten-minute shower when I was back at my house. I'm fine with taking these showers but I can't wait till when I get to go back to my house and take a long, hot bubble bath. Three more weeks and then it will come true. There are only a couple things that are fresh onboard the ship. The candy bars are so old that the peanut butter of my Reese's peanut buttercup has turned into powder.

Also today Mark saw a Polar Bear. I'm envious, that was one of my goals on this ship to see one. He told me he saw one polar bear eating on a seal and also he saw a walrus close by. Around 1 o'clock today we started dropping off the scientists via helicopter. The choppers have been going back and forth to SHEBA dropping off and picking up scientists. Some scientists are going to be with us until we reach Point Barrow when they will be dropped off. Also a Canadian helicopter came to help transport everyone faster. There were the two Polar Star Choppers and the one Canadian chopper going back and forth. Tonight we are going to be still here and tomorrow morning or so we will head back to Point Barrow.

When I woke up I got ready and we did another link up. It went much smoother because the ship was just sitting still inside the ice all day today. Previously it was harder to connect because the ship was moving and we were so far up north. We were downloading our mail and we sent out Images of our new location. It was raining on the top of the bridge while we were working on the download. If it were wintertime, there would be snow.

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