Birthday Cakes at 90 Degrees South..Not Yer Average Cake

Mark Weekly, who works with NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration), recently had a birthday at the South Pole.  We like to make a big deal of anniversaries, since there aren't too many events to be had down here with no reminders of outside holidays or special events. Whatever excitement happens, it's all made up, homespun, and down to our little group, and odds are, with 43 of us, there will be a birthday every week or two...whoopee! 

Mark won the pingpong pancake championship a few weeks ago and is on the fire team - thus the cake decor.  The cake was 6 layers high and weighed 35 pounds, baked and built by Chef Francis, grinning here.