Lego Endurance...

I picked up this amazing Lego set late last year, as an early birthday present. The Endurance was the ship that took Sir Ernest Shackleton and his team down to Antarctica in 1914 on the ill-fated on the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. The ship became stuck in the ice of the Weddell Sea and eventually went down months later in November 1915. Remarkably, all the crew survived - after an epic journey across frozen seas and in open boats.

The story of Shackleton and his expedition captured my imagination when I was much younger, and it was exciting that Lego released the Endurance as a set - two years after the actual ship was discovered below the Weddell Sea. (By an expedition team, I might add, onboard the SA Agulhas II - the same ship on which Candace and I sailed to Tristan da Cunha back in 2013.) For more on Shackleton's adventure, I highly recommend the book Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, by Alfred Lansing.

Expedition photographer Frank Hurley captures his famous photo of Endurance. :)

The Lego Endurance trapped in the snow and ice of Metro Detroit.