the education of henry

Endurance

2024-12-15

This week was all about Ernest Shackleton and the Endurance. I have been waiting for the LEGO set of the ship to be delivered and it finally happened. We also did school, of course - though I only have three more days for this calendar year.And we did one day of Recess with Nick, Jonathan, Kellan, and Annika.

Sure, we'll pose for a picture...

On Tuesday...

Here it is!

The Endurance with the James Caird, the lifeboat Shackleton used to go for help.

A little more snow to shovel.

On Friday Dad went to the public library and checked out Shackleton, the 2002 British miniseries starring Kenneth Branagh as Sir Ernest Shackleton, and we watched the first half after supper.

Saturday morning I started building the Endurance. I work for nine hours and only took a break to eat lunch. Dad helped with the rigging, but I did the rest myself.

I got started at about 5:45 AM.

The hull is mostly completed.

Working on the stern.

She's all together - working on the life boats.

Attaching the lifeboats.

The first mast is up!

All rigged up!

Pretty happy with this build.

On display with the James Caird, which was a gift with purchase set that was only available the first day the Endurance was on sale.

The minifigures are Shackleton (left) and Frank Hurley (right).

Here is the real ship, trapped in the Antacrtic ice.

We watched the second half of the film, which featured the ship sinking and the trek across the ice, then the 800-mile sea journey through a hurricane to South Georgia Island, where Shackleton still had to climb a mountain range to get to help.

Sunday I did some reading, played some Civilization: Revolutions, and worked on some new LEGO projects.

The battle on Mandalore, from The Mandalorian season three.

This is the battle on Nevarro when the Imperial remnants try to take abduct Grogu.

This is below the scene above, in the Mandolorian covert, where the Armorer and the Forge are.

To finish off the weekend, we watched the National Georgraphic documentary Endurance, about the Endurance22 expedition that discovered the wreck of the ship on the Antacrtic sea floor in 2022, almost 10,000 feet below the surface, and exactly 100 years after Shackleton was buried on South Georgia island.

Watching with Dad on the couch.

Hmm...what else did I do this week?

I finished The Phantom Tollbooth by Norman Juster, and started The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate. Dad and I finished reading Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman, and we started Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.

That's all for now - take care!