Chaos

Monday, January 5, 2009

Location: Greenland

Temperature: -15 degrees

After a night of little sleep (apparently the weird magnetic field at the top of the world can screw with sleeping patterns as much as it does compasses) we were off to tour the base's weather station and missile defense facility.

Here we are under a 50 foot satellite that tells the Weather Channel what the weather is going to be like.

This is what the outside of the satellite looked like, but my breath got in the way of the picture.

Security's incredible tight around here, so not many pictures. It was awesome to see, though. We even got to go inside the radar that watches to make sure nobody's shooting anything at anybody else.

When we got back, we headed over to our new friend Morgan's dorm where she had made us all dinner. She cuts hair on the base and is from Knoxville and made us a full on Southern meal with fried chicken, mashed potatoes, gravy and corn. She even had sweet tea, which was great for me as I'd been going through withdrawals. 

Anderson provided the dinner's entertainment with an ad-libbed rendition of "Everybody Hurts." I think some Hootie may have been involved at some point, too.

After dinner, there was a special appearance by Captain Kaos. A very enigmatic character, this is the only photo documentation we have of him.

Perhaps the onlookers expressions say the most about the Kaos sighting.

Morgan (on the right).

Or Jeremy.

Chaos, indeed.