There is a general expectation on board while we wait to get our hands in the “mud”…some of us are even seeing core catchers everywhere, even in our meals. This wonderful dinner was the aim of our microfossil imagination, as we were playing with couscous core catcher description: the couscous were forams and the vegetables were macrofossils of all sorts…kept us busy for a while. Well, soon enough we will work the real sediments.