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the small supply place at Berg Center and ask for smaller Mukluks.  Up in chch we had the wit to get Bunny Boots smaller than Size 8-- but not Mukluks, and our 8s are dreadful.  gh. found a pair of 7s in the bin, and I sixes -- with [[underlined]] five [[/underlined]] liner and size 8 pads they are +/- ok but still too large.  We put in a request for a Size 6 & a Size 5 to be sent from chch.  
Up in Thiel we used the triday duplicator to copy the 67 man day list.  Talked w Christina, the sea ice specialist from Finland, and Zeller on the radioactive Mt. of Q.Maud land.  Back in Berg I found John in our cage and he demonstrated the Hasselblad to me.
Then ~1 hr. before dinner here we sit in our pleasant room w plenty of surface space to sit, & lie on on the beds.
Relatively few people remain in McM.  Scientists are in NVL [[strikethrough]] ox [[/strikethrough]] or elsewhere, or have gone home for Christmas.  The Inn is quiet, dining table subdued.  This evening especially so at dinner time because this was the time of the 1st pizza-to-order party.  From 8 to 10 PM you could order any pizza you liked & watch a movie in the dining room:  "Lord of the Rings."  We are never hungry any more.  We had no intention of eating pizza but 

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it was a lovely bright evening so we walked to library.  The librarian in charge was a lovely young Hawaiian(?) in the Navy.  gh. checked out 2 books, then we left because it was so hot in there.  Looked in at the party.  No one we know. Place not full.  Later reports, however, indicated it was booming & a great success.  Officers-enlisted- & USARPS together +/- for 1st time.  Sat, read, wrote, and had a visit in our room from Christina.  To bed at 11:00.

[[underlined]] Sunday, Dec. 13 [[/underlined]]
Ghislaine radio alarm woke us both from dreaming sleep at 7:00.  But it is Sunday; breakfast is not so early -- we didn't know when.  We relaxed a while longer.  Went out & found breakfast in enlisted mess.  Sat a long time talking w [[?]] Friedman & his two colleagues, and later, Christina.  We compared academic titles & work in the U.S., France, Belgium, Austria; and cultural attitudes in Japan & India.  Ed Zeller came in and predicted a great storm at noon roaring up from the shelf.  We shall see.    It never came
We learned early that [[underlined]] Ludalf & Amentad [[/underlined]] are due in from the Allan Hills [[underlined]] today [[/underlined]]!  The helo left ~9:30 & would stop at Vanda- It should be back by 11:30-12:00.  We prepared to meet them with our cameras & 2 cans for beer.  Rushed out to a helo ~11:00 & so did Zeller & Dreshoff.  False alarm, a helo from Mt Erebus.  A little later ^[[1:15]] a 2nd one come.  Out