Friday, April 16, 2004
Emily - I've had a really good day today, it was so cool. It was the last day on the huskies which was quite sad. In one way it was sad as it was the last day with the huskies, as I really love them, but it's good as we're moving onto the next phase. When we got onto the flat sea ice we had to go and find the big box with our food in it. Ond once we found it, it was really cool as we felt really rewarded, and there was a little surprise waiting for us.

Our families had sent us little packages from home. Mine had a card from my sister, a card from my mum, some chocolates, a magazine - it was so lovely to get that from home. There was also a little video message from home, which we're going to watch tonight and I can't wait to see it! It's so nice to get something fronm your family that they've put together and it made me so happy.

Saturday, April 17, 2004
Jennielyn - Hi, it's day 13 here in the snowy Arctic, and it's snowy outside, and even though you'd expect it to snow in the Arctic I haven't seen it snow until now. It's really gorgeous. We've been stuck in the tent all day, and not been out once. We haven't been out once 'cos last night it started snowing, and there's been a snowstorm.

I like being out and about but there's nothing you can do, you can't help the weather. I just really hope it doesn't snow tomorrow 'cos I really want to get out there. In a way though, staying in the tent all day has give us a chance to repair ourself, 'cos you get really worn out in this trip 'cos we work really hard. Today's been like our catch-up day to get well and get warm.

Sunday, April 18, 2004
Matt - Today's been a bit of a bad day for all of us, 'cos we found out that we won't be able to do the polar bear tracking because of the bad weather. I think we're all feeling a bit down 'cos we've been sitting in the tent for the last 48 hours as there's a blizzard going on, and there's nothing we can do about it and we feel useless sitting here.

We just want to get on and go to the glacier and get on with something that we set out to do. This blizzard is just getting everyone down as we can't do anything - you can barely walk outside and you can barely see. If the weather is clear tomorrow we can get out of this place, and go up to the glacier and get on with our project. We're just all hoping that will happen tomorrow.