Polar Bear Plunge 2010

'We will open the book. It's pages are blank.  We are going to put the words on them ourselves.

The book is called Opportunity and it's first chapter is New Year's Day.'

-Edith Lovejoy Pierce

Happy New Year!

Another fresh new year is here...

Another year to live!

To banish worry, doubt, and fear,

To love and laugh and give!

This bright new year is given me

To live each day with zest...

To daily grow and try to be 

My highest and my best!

I have the opportunity

Once more to right some wrongs,

To pray for peace, to plant a tree,

And sing more joyful songs!

-William Arthur Ward

I started off the year by taking a dip in the frozen Atlantic with a few hundred other crazy Bostonians in the annual 'Polar Bear Plunge' sponsored by the "L" Street Brownies, the oldest Polar Bear club in the US.  It was invigorating, very cold, and very fun.  It ended up being just us girls, and we randomly ran into the Preeces, a family I nanny for in Cambridge. 

I, unfortunately, do not have any photos of the initial mass 'plunge', because...well... I was plunging! But I do have some fun before and after shots.  Enjoy! And embrace the opportunities of the New Year! 

(  Hey!  I found some news photos that show us in the water! Just click:  News & photo  Slideshow  )