Log Book for January 24, 2011

Commander's Report

Virgiliu Pop Reporting

As usual, today's report begins with the events of yesterday evening - after the comm window. We once again went out to perform some naked-eye astronomical observations, and Dragos took some amazing photos. The commander of the RoMars Expedition recommends him for a Martian Pulitzer!

We then went to bed, and the commander woke up with the smell of fried eggs, ham and mushrooms (Betty and Iulia woke up earlier to prepare the breakfast and go on EVAs with Haritina, the Sundial Maker).

The same scientists who cooked us breakfast then took Dragos (who wrote his article for the 'Adevarul' newspaper) on yet another adventurous EVA, to be inscribed with letters of gold in the MDRS-ian Chronicles. At the time the commander is writing this report, the two young ladies are down in the lab, analyzing the samples. What a crew!

Did the commander sit idle? No - while the away team was on the mission, Haritina and he went to the attic and cataloged the freeze-dried supplies. Haritina then went to the Musk Observatory, and Captain Virgil once again became Captain Cook.

We absolutely had to have Romanian food today, as it's a national celebration back on Earth - so the captain made a nice polenta ("Mamaliga'), with beef stew and cauliflower. That's about it for today - if the skies are merciful, we'll see the Milky Way once again.