The 15's did the Polar Plunge on Saturday, Feb 21.  I think everyone was excited to go but also a little scared.  We all met around 2:15 and Elle and Amy met Winnie the Pooh and some of his friends that were plunging.  We all got changed into our tie-dyed or our Polar Plunge t-shirts.  Then we got in line.  The smart ones Rachel and Elle, brought shoes and sandals.  But all of the rest didn't.  So when we were waiting in line on the snow, our feet were cold, very cold.  I looked around and all of us were freezing and holding each other, and then I look at coach and he's smiling and jumping up and down.  We finally got very close to the line and a guy said that we had to have sandals on, so we all got some on. 

Then he said that we could go.  We started walking toward the hole.  We had to go through this slush first, which was FREEZING.  By then, I was holding on to Katelin's hand pretty hard.  I thought it took forever to get around to where we had to jump but when we all got there we held hands.  They counted down for us and we said, "HIIIII --YA!" and jumped in.  We all swam as fast as we could to get to the steps to get out.  Rachel's mom said that we were in the water for 10 seconds.  It sure seemed like longer.  I am sure everyone wanted to get out of there fast but unfortunately for Elle she had to swim back and get her sandal that was still in the water.  I fell on the first step trying to get out.  Afterward when we got out, we all tried running to the hot tub.