Lots of lifting

We finally boarded the ship around 5PM yesterday. Our rooms are actually larger than I expected and I definitely have enough room to store all of the extra supplies I brought. I had a very sour stomach which turned into nausea later, so I took some Dramamine and passed out. I feel a lot better today and sometimes don't even notice the rocking of the boat.

Some of the issues with missing chemicals and supplies have been sorted out, but there are still a few things missing that may prevent
a few of our fellow scientists from joining us. :(

I spent the day today helping lug around liquid nitrogen tanks. We toted the empty tanks to the shore around 10AM, returned on the noon boat, went back to land at 4PM, and then ran into some trouble. Apparently there was a miscommunication about whether to pay in dollars or pesos. Well, in Chile all the banks close around 2PM, so we had to rush around trying to find a money exchange. We finally found one in a mall (rather nice mall, actually), then ran back to pick up and pay for the tanks, all in time to return to the dock for the 6PM boat. And those things were HEAVY. I also found out about my email today. My email address is sci5@atlantis.whoi.edu . The internet is painfully slow here, so gmail won't really load. The limit for incoming and outgoing emails is 10K (there is a filter that won't let anything larger pass through). We leave for sea on Friday morning (as it stands now). A day late, but it's better to have most of the missing stuff on the boat when we take off. Hope you all are well.