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before, but it’s a good movie to see again. Strangely enough it is now nightime outside the plane - and it’s only 3:30 in the afternoon! We are flying east though, and that’s why it’s already dark. Now let me pick up the story where I left off.

Oh - after we got our blankets, we got in another line and got a sub, chips, piece of fruit and a soda. There were no shower facilities in the hangar, so I washed up, and went to bed around 2200. However, I didn’t sleep well because it was so damn cold! It got down to 35° last night, and the hangar was almost that cold - and it was very drafty. And everytime the doors were opened, a very loud buzzer would sound for 10 seconds or so. I woke up around 0100 hours, freezing, when I remembered I had bought a survival blanket just before we left. (They are the silver-sheet foil-like things they wrap around marathoners at the end of a race - they reflect the body heat.) I got it out and used it - it helped some, but not much -