Welcome to my Antarctic Blog - Just for kids!

This blog is a kid-friendly, educationally focused chronicle of my adventures in Antarctica for children aged 3ish to 10ish. I encourage you to comment, ask questions, make corrections if you find the need, and above all, enjoy and have fun!

I'm embarking upon my fourth (4th) trip to Antarctica this month, but I'm a little nervous because I haven't been there since October 4, 2004! If you want, you can try to figure out how may years, months, weeks, and/or days there are between October 4th, 2004 and August 27th, 2011. How might you even begin figuring that out?

I will leave Denver at 4:20 PM Mountain Time (also know as GMT -6) on August 23rd, 2011, and I will arrive in Auckland, New Zealand (also known as GMT +12) at approximately 11:00 AM on August 25th. It sure does seem to me like a day is missing! If you want to help me sleuth this out, check back on August 23rd and I'll let you know my flight schedule. If you want to learn more about New Zealand, here is a link to a world map that helps you find tiny little New Zealand (NZ) http://www.mapsofworld.com/newzealand/newzealand-location-map.html and at the very bottom of that map is a white continent, guess what that is!

I look forward to keeping you posted on my adventures, and since going to the Ice, as it's sometimes called, requires a pretty good deal of preparation, I probably won't blog again until August 23rd. Any ideas on what I might need to take with me? Feel free to comment.

Enjoy the heat, until next time!