WELCOME TO ANTARCTICA!

Micah and I went to culinary school and became fast friends, in fact I would say he is my best friend. He set allot of goals one of them was to go to Antarctica. Well he made it, this is what is means to set goals and if you set them you can achieve wonders.

From My Fiend Micah who is in Antarctica:

Ann Curry from the Today Show is here at Mcmurdo and will be doing the show live on the 5th. She came and had lunch with myself and a couple other cooks today which was sweet. She is writing about here time down here one their website so here is a link, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032633/ . So if you can watch the show I might be there!!

From allDAY Today's Family Blog

(From Matt Carluccio, TODAY producer)

We've arrived at McMurdo Station, Antarctica.

The flight in was thrilling -- especially for the team members who were invited to sit in the cockpit on the approach into McMurdo. I'll leave it to Ann Curry to describe, and for viewers to watch the video (we'll be sure to include on November 5), but just imagine a fully-loaded cargo plane landing on 20-foot-thick sea ice. Amazing to me, but routine for the Operation Deep Freeze pilots from McChord Air Force Base who support McMurdo Station.

Our gracious hosts from the National Science Foundation greeted us and spent the better part of the day giving us a tour of "station," as the locals call it. McMurdo is the largest of the three U.S. research bases on Antarctica and it serves as the U.S. Antarctic Program's hub - basically, everyone comes through McMurdo. It is a unique place, to say the least.

While some might envision a camp of igloos and huts, McMurdo is actually a small and highly efficiently run town. Sitting on crusted volcanic rock along the frozen sound from which it gets its name, construction on McMurdo began in the 1950's by the U.S. Navy and it's progressed in some form ever since. Today, more than 60 buildings have dotted the area - some crude looking from the outside but all sufficient to house and work the 1,100 scientists and staff who come here for the summer season which starts in October and last until February.

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