Entertaining Ourselves

Entertainment on the boat is essential. Good thing we're so good at finding new and exciting ways to keep ourselves occupied! Our work so far (for the science party) has included:
1) describing core (the petrologists)
2) putting together CORK stuff (CORK scientists - though, not me yet)
3) Outreach meetings where each one of us spends a day describing our contribution to this expedition to the outreach team so that they can design lesson plans to take back to their classroom
4) drawing class with Dinah
5) tours of the boat
6) lifeboat drills
7) science meetings
8) processing the little sample material that we've gotten so far
9) writing the methods sections of the cruise report

With all that going on, we still have quite a bit of time to ourselves. So, our creativity is put to work so that 63 days doesn't look like a century away. The Transocean guys (drill team) do karaoke downstairs every afternoon (Hilarious!) along with their favorite 5 songs (Seriously, only 5) which include their ultimate favorite, Faithfully by Journey. They also play a lot of Foosball.

Some scientists play poker on friday night and have a dance party on wednesday night. Others organize shipwide activities like the Haiku contest (some of which were pretty freakin' hilarious - I'll post some later), a Kite contest (to be held early Aug - pictures to come) and a pet wall (my personal favorite). This was Buster's chance for a cameo. :) We also have movies at 7:15 every night and a gym.

The to-dos, the fun times and our own personal entertainment - books, internet, rig floor tv (only kidding) and our overdue to-do lists from home - have succeeded in making time fly. Only 41 days til we're back in Victoria. :)