Chow Hall and Dust Storms

First of all, Happy Birthday, America. We spent the day here just kind of relaxing. Had a few administrative duties to attend to, but that didn't take long. I was going to head to the gym first thing this morning, until I was greeted with this:No that's not the surface of Mars, and yes, it was orange out with all of the dust. We had maybe 50 feet of visibility.

On my way into work, it looked like someone had already been by the airplanes.

Here's a quick video of my walk to the Dinning Facility (DFAC):

Yep, not a whole lot to see out there. Thank goodness we have made that trek a few times before and know our way to the food.

Speaking of the food, they put on a pretty good spread for us today. There is soooo much good food to eat here, that I usually only eat 2 meals a day. So lunch was my first meal today. They had decorated the chow hall for the 4th in red, white and blue. We had a few additions, to include Uncle Sam,The Statue of Liberty,

And of course, all of the food stations. There was a special cake, complete with a cutting ceremony:

Here's a picture of my plate, complete with BBQ ribs, corn on the cob, corn bread, greens, V-8, and strawberry, yes, strawberry cobbler. I'd never heard of it before either. I did go get some ice cream for the cobbler before I ate it.
It all tasted excellent. We really don't have it too bad here. Well, I have more pictures of the food serving stations, but our Internet is pretty slow here. It takes a couple of minutes to upload each picture, and it is already after midnight here. So I will try to post again tomorrow after church. Hope you all had a Happy 4th of July!