Workin' for the Weekend

.... oh wait, nevermind, there are no weekends on ABOT. Guess we're just workin' for the money then.

Speaking of work- as it was Wednesday morning, we had our weekly "working party" for the stores onload. Now, don't you get TOO excited, it was HARDLY a party, at least by most people's standards.

We begin by getting up really early. Ok, not THAT early, but like 5:30. I caught the sunrise again this AM thanks to being up for the working party.

Then we wait while 10-12 huge boxes, wrapped in basically plastic wrap, sitting on wooden pallets, are craned onto the platform from the little boat that brings the food.

This is exciting for a few reasons: one- you get to see all of the food that we get (fresh fruit, REAL milk, veggies, yum!) We got in 3 big boxes of peppers- one red, one yellow and one green. I immediately whip out my camera to take pics of the pretty peppers and Doc looks at me incredulously and says "WHY are you taking pictures of the peppers?" to which I respond by trying to explain to him how much I love taking pictures of food. He raises one eyebrow and says "maybe you should spend a little more time EATING the food than taking picture of it..." but don't worry, I am getting plenty to eat out here :)

We then unpack all of the frozen foods and chilled foods and dry foods. It is really awesome because then I eat 2 or 3 or 4 kiwis a DAY until they run out. We also get real milk (which lasts like 3 days because every drinks like 5 a day). On Wednesdays we also get lots and lots of water bottles and our laundry gets picked up/dropped off and we get mail (we actually get laundry pick-up/drop-off and mail delivered 3 times a week!)

However, the hands down BEST part of stores onload? All of the frozen goods come surrounded with little packets of dry ice. The food is packed the night before in Kuwait and then it takes a 5 hour boat ride out here to us at ABOT and arrives around 5am so it has to stay very very cold.

After we get out all of the food, we like to take the little individual baggies of dry ice and put them in one big bag. Then we repeat this with all of the ice from all of the boxes of food. Then we dump all of the dry ice into the warm North Arabian Gulf and watch it steam up and smoke up like a witch's cauldron. Being one who is very easily amused, I get a big kick out of it, as does most of the other grown adults on here. It's like Halloween every Wednesday on ABOT. Enjoy :)

After the dry ice goes in the ocean, the fun is over and it's back to work. But not before I caught one of the ALMCO workers eating the radishes straight out of the package at 8am on camera. As you can tell, this Sea Bee is equally weirded out by this guy eating radishes whole :)