Sunrise. After wetting our appetite for nearly three weeks with progressively longer, yet still small, doses of light the sun will rise again today. With it come 200 tan and healthy (aside from the few with just enough sickness to cripple all our weak immune systems) folk who are ramping up for Mainbody.
Many will get off the plane and cough upon their first inhalation, the air so dry and so cold. Others will raise a glove to block the biting wind on the runway. All of them will talk faster, ask more questions and make contact quicker than those of us who have spent the last eight months gradually grinding down.
Yep. We are all pretty tired. The most tired will be leaving on the planes the new arrive on. And those of us who are staying will either absorb the energy of the arrivals or hide and seek energy from the familiar friends of winter.
At the same time there is much talk of travel and what we all will be doing when we actually leave the ice nearly two months from now. Some straight home. Others living in NZ for awhile. Australia will receive much attention from the likes of us. Thailand too. And still others are talking of trips around the world.
The talk today, however, is of the sun.