On a lighter note, we spent the Christmas Day with our buddies "The Australian Defence Force" where they fed us, supplied lots of near-beer and put on a show for us that was freakin hilarious! These are some of the funniest, most talented and nice people you will ever meet! Take a gander......
......And then New Years ther was a few bands on the Base stage which was nice, they sounded great! Unfortunatly I was in bed by 11pm so I missed the ball drop!
OK, so it may not have frozen over, but..........
It did snow in Hell!!! For the first time in 100 years, recorded history or whatever else you want to call it, it did finally snow in the city of Baghdad! Temperatures do get into the freezing marks often, however there is usually not enough moisture content in the air to make little dandruffy flakes fall or it just isn't damn cold enough! I feel fortunate to have been witness to a meteorological event of such proportions in my lifetime! Then again I may have just been witness to the spread of global warming on a local scale.......scary, yet exillerating. I attempted to make some snow angels in my excitement but I just got really, really muddy and looked at quite funny. Here are a few pictures of the blessed (or tragic) event, it was really coming down good for a while.........BTW, I think the gently falling snow in front of the bomb bunker says Christmas like nothing else!
