Look what I found!

I was very excited to see this. Under the tarp, are two crates that I had said goodbye to back home in early November. For those of you who haven't followed my scientific activities for the last year, this is what I have been working on for the past nine months while putting nearly everything else on hold. For those of you wondering where I have been for these months, I was designing and building this detector with a team of superb physicists, engineers, and technicians. We had handed off these two crates to a shipping company to be sent off to Christchurch, then to the South Pole. This is what I came here to do, and if all goes well, this is what I will be doing for the next several years. They were supposed to get to the South Pole on their own some time last week. I knew they had gotten to Christchurch, but I didn't know exactly where there were. And here they are, in the back of the same plane that I am flying to McMurdo on!

I probably won't be able to resist writing about the science that we hope to do with these detectors, I will save that for later. For now, I am just happy to see them.