Damn Tablets!

Today my geochem class went out to our work site.  Our work site is a lake that has several residents and a YMCA camp.  Our job is to do a full work up about the sediments, water quality, etc.  My job, along with four other people, is to map out the bathymetry of the lake.  There was a slight problem with this though...well a few:

1) The lake is completely frozen over so the most we could do was take GPS points for where holes had been axed open and samples taken.

2) The tablet PCs decided to not work...both of them!  So we had to go back to the university and find one that worked.  Then of course none of us remembered to work the program properly so the data won't be 100%, but that is just a quick fix.

3) Oh, and we couldn't get any soundings so we have to wait until the spring for the ice to melt enough for us to take row boats or canoes out.

Aside from all that I must say that the novelty of walking over a frozen lake has not worn off.  We were walking on ice!  How cool is that?  

Also, I was so SO warm!  I put on a heavy under armour, then a lighter under armour, then a t-shirt, then a heavy long sleeved shirt, then a fleece, then a wind breaker.  I was toasty.