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My daughter Avery had an assignment in her first grade class. She was supposed to see if she could send a paper turtle to every continent in the world.
The first challenge what was Avery going to name her nomadic turtle? Avery was into eating goldfish at the time, so the turtle became known as Goldie.
Blossom and I started seeing whom we knew that could help Avery send Goldie around the world. Blossom’s godmother lived in Sweden, so Europe was easy.
We knew someone in Peru, so check off South America. Asia? That was easy too. We also had friends in Africa. Australia? We had that covered as well.
We thought getting six of seven continents was pretty good for Goldie. “Daddy, I need to find a way to get Goldie to Antarctica,” Avery said to me.
Avery started giving me the look with her big brown eyes.
That’s when I remembered that Martin, a brilliant engineer I had worked with years ago, had worked in Antarctica. Perhaps he knew someone?
So, I contacted Martin. Sure enough, Martin knew that Jen, a “winter-over” (that means you are spending the winter in Antarctica) was stationed in Antarctica right now!
