Antarctic Thanksgiving

So I have survived my first Antarctic holiday. Working in food service, we had to work on the day. I thought I would really hate spending Thanksgiving at work but I actually really enjoyed the day itself. It was really fun to see everyone and just be in the middle of all the fun hustle and bustle and excitement.
Since it’s a holiday, the community gets an extra day off, so we celebrate it on Saturday so that people can have Saturday off and then their regular Sunday off. The prep for it was insane, but there were a lot of volunteers coming in to help all week which was really nice. Plus the entire kitchen staff worked on the day, so it was a little crowded, but very well staffed. We got to eat at 1:30, and then the community had seating’s available at 3, 5 and 7. They could stay for 1 and ½ hours, and then we had to turn over the whole house in a half hour for the next seating. The night workers also had a dinner at midnight.
The general consensus was that the food highlight of the day was the crab legs. They were so big that they hardly fit on the trays. My favorites were the chocolate covered strawberries and all the traditional turkey stuff.
I have to admit, this was my favorite day of work. It was really fun, and I think we all enjoyed the day as much as the community did. I’m looking forward to doing it all over again in a month for Christmas!

The internet is being weird today, but I will hopefully be able to add pictures to this post later!