Polar Plunge!

Haywood Waterways Association sponsored a polar plunge at Lake Junaluska.  IT WAS IN FEBRUARY!! This is the only time that you can legally get in the lake.  I thought, why not? I got a shirt out of it, as well as bragging rights.  I also won a great door prize: a one-month pass to the Waynesville Recreation Center.  I wore a swimsuit, cape, knee-high athletic socks and a tutu.  Thankfully, I have water shoes and didn't have to mess up my running shoes.  The event got some great media coverage. 

HWA has a program called ''Kids in the Creek,'' which this event benefited.  The program works with 8th graders in the classroom and then takes them out to the creek.  A neat fact about Haywood County is that all of our water originates here.  It's particularly important to take care of our water because of that. 

http://themountaineer.villagesoup.com/p/taking-the-plunge/966945
If you look to the right of the guy in the white top and red pants, I'm behind that person.  You'll see a little blur of red, which was my tutu. 

http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2013130225003 
I'm two people to the right of the same guy in the white top and red pants.  I'm also the first person out of that craziness.   

http://www.smokymountainnews.com/outdoors/item/9915-taking-the-polar-plunge
I'm not sure if I made it in here. 

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/v77ajnja7a2nhdr/bxSv_Oa0b7
This is the photographers site.  There are quite a few, so you may not see me.  You will, however, be entertained.