Day Two of the Pisces One Expedition was intentionally started off slow as we were allowing our late arriving international crewmates to sleep off their jetlag.

After a lovely breakfast cooked by Kevin, we split up to do engineering chores. Paul of Crew 34 was summoned into Hanksville for a telephone communication and while he was gone, Artemis and Anthony installed electrical conduit per the plans Paul worked out last night.

Col. John Barainca showed up as promised at 09:00 to take Adam and Felipe on a three hour Pressurised Rover excursion (see EVA One) out to Lith Valley were he has been making biological observations since he helped to build MDRS back in 2001.

With all crew busy, Hugh showed leadership by undertaking the least savoury domestic chores, starting with the breakfast dishes, to clean up the HAB. During the frantic and incredible effort of the "Junkyard Wars" refitting crew to try and squeezed as much engineering as possible into two weeks, the daily sweeping and dusting necessary for a healthy enclosed close quarters living environment was slightly neglected. This sacrifice was made in order to get all the electrical work and plumbing done before the Pisces One Expedition arrived.

I and my Pisces One team will never be able to thank Paul and his team enough for the incredible job Crew 34 did in restoring the HAB to the level of functionality it is now at. Note to future crews, please do NOT try to be "tough" and turn off the heating over overnight as some crews have done in the recent past. The result was Paul's team has had to replace the ENTIRE plumbing system because of ruptured water pipes though out the HAB. [Note from CapCom: freezing of pipes during a week break between Crews 31 and 32 also contributed to plumbing damage due to design issues that prevented full drainage. Hugh's guidance should still be followed.]

Kevin was assigned to HABCom for the morning and his own HVAC project, his comment to me was "I have never seen so much dust" after I had scoured the stairway and it's base to provide a clean place to change over from outdoors to indoors shoes.

At 11:15 Hugh suited up himself up in about 8 minutes flat, was checked over by both Artemis and Anthony and cycled out through the south airlock for a one hour "in-sim" engineering EVA (see EVA Two).

The afternoon started with the return of PEV EVA One and Paul from Hanksville. Paul with Hugh's blessing immediately put Adam and Felipe to work on external engineering "out of sim" to transport material from under the HAB over into the new "Antarctic" storage area. Anthony with Kevin's assistance put up new shelf mid HAB south above the state room doors for storage of CD's and DVDs to free up storage space on the shelves above the HAB control centre.

Lunch was taken at the end of the engineering activities, with imported cheese from Holland supplied by our Dutch Crew Chef and freshly baked bread that was excavated from the bread machine with several spatula's and knife.

After lunch Hugh laid on an "All Hands" EVA and asked Paul to please teach the newbie's the perils and joy's of ATV operation. In the interests of Safety First, this EVA was conducted "out of sim" so that Paul and his assistant instructor Hugh could yell out advice to the trainee's without worrying about an EVA helmet interfering with verbal communications.

Upon the completion of ATV training Anthony became Artemis's Sous Chef, and Paul, Adam, Felipe and Kevin went over to the new main engineering area to test the newly installed HAB water line. I went up into the HAB's attic and reported the flow rates and gallons per minutes back to Engineering until the tank was full and Paul announced a successful test of filling the internal water tank from the remote Engineering location.

At this time Artemis is preparing an gastronomical fantasy for supper (see Journalist Report for details) and after supper my crew mates will be sending up their reports on there adventures here on analogue.

Tomorrow morning will be fully suited up walking Training EVA for our trainee's and helping Paul further with engineering improvements which are slowly bringing the HAB up to spec.

Tonight is movie night on analogue Mars, so goodnight from the Pisces One Expedition.