we arrived in Christchurch with enough time to go through the Antarctic Museum. Christchurch is one of the major staging areas for expeditions to Antarctica. (Pietro left through there, though we saw no mention of him in the museum).

there were some neat exhibits, though we didn't spend much time reading the info since finn was running around.

debbie and finn posing in front of a Antarctic skyscape:


they had a room where they had a polar storm every ten minutes. they dropped the temp to -10 C and had 30 mph winds. (they let you borrow a parka). finn didn't know what to think and eventually burried his head into debbie's coat:



after the "storm" there was a little ice slide that debbie and finn went down. it shot them down fast.

there were clothes for people to try on:


and lots of different snow mobiles to ride: