Three Weeks In

Wow, where did the last three weeks go. Here it is May 11th and I have been gone for three weeks. To tell the truth, I have been having a hard time remembering what day of the week it is and what the date is. Today is a great example of that. Last night (or should I say early this morning) I got to bed around 2:30 AM. This is a wee bit later than I had planned on, but within reason given the work I have been doing. The only problem was that I needed to get up at 8 AM to have a quick breakfast before heading into Kangerlussuaq for a meeting with a bunch of people who arrived on yesterday's ANG flight from NY. Running on 5.5 hours of sleep is ok for Ryan, but not for me.

So much has happened today, mostly planning for the next phase of the trip. Currently the plan is this: On Thursday the 13th we will be dismantling CAPABL and packing it up for the trip up to Summit. All of the gear (approx 1.5 tons of it) needs to be at the ANG staging warehouse in Kangerlussuaq by Friday noon. On Saturday, I am scheduled to fly up to Summit for a turn around flight. What this means is that I will fly up to Summit, get off of the plane for about 30 minutes, climb back on the plane and come back to Kangerlussuaq. Mostly this is for a hands on inspection of the work that is being done to the building that CAPABL is going to be installed in. I will be taking photos and measurements and notes on everything to talk to people about on Saturday night and Sunday. Then, on Monday the 17th, we are scheduled to shift our duty station to Summit for the rest of the trip. This is two days earlier than we had originally thought, but the scheduling people want to give us two chances to get up to Summit instead of one. It seems that the flight on the 19th that we were originally supposed to take is the last flight of this current flight period and if it doesn't go, we are stuck in Kangerlussuaq for another two weeks. This is something that we really don't want.

So, for the next week or so I will be busy working and flying around Greenland. This is so much fun......