Ok, here goes....

Here's what I remember from the weekend. Last Friday I rode up with my friend Jeff's brother Dan. We arrived in Rose City around 8:15 after a pretty easy 3 hour drive. We were welcomed by a cabin full of friends. So for the next few hours we sat around and talked, played cards, listened to music and drank some beer. That last activity seemed to be a reoccuring theme throughout the weekend. I can't remember when we started the Polar Bear Club initiations but it was fun to put the rookies through a series of extremely cold tasks. After that was done I just remember hanging out in the cabin for a little bit and then going to bed at 1:30 which is very early but friday was a long day for me.

Saturday I woke up around 8:30 and sat by the fireplace for about an hour and a half before I decided I'd get ready to head on over to East Tawas, the place where we jump. When we all arrived in Tawas we met up with some of the guys who were staying at the hotel instead of the cabin and decided to go register for the jump. After that we decided to walk around town and get some lunch. A few of us went to G's, it's a pretty tasty pizza place and we got a pretty good deal on some pizza I thought. After lunch it was time........JUMP TIME ! We all went and got changed in the hotel and headed out to the lake. Waiting in line to jump is almost as fun as the jump....we get kinda crazy and yell and jump around and some people weren't too thrilled with us since they we're kind of worried about the thickness of the ice this year. Oh well, we like to have a good time. So then we all jumped in 2 by 2 and I will say this year has been slightly warmer then previous years. My friend Shaun and I decided to stay in a little longer than normal this year. Seeing as how we only get to do this once a year we wanted it to last as long as possible. Once I got out some guy pulled me off to the side and started asking me questions and had me talk into his phone....I'm pretty sure I was on some local radio station. When I stopped answering questions I ran into the hotel with everyone and jumped in the pool and hot tub.......it felt soooo warm.

Everyone got changed into some dry clothes and we all headed down to the beer tent.....my favorite part of the weekend. We were there from about 2pm to 6pm. We drank, sang songs as loud as we could and I even met 2 new friends in the process. Their names are Candis and Heather......I'm not sure how but it wasn't too long and Candis and I were talking about the Red Sox and it turns out she's from Waltz ! We talked about the Waltz Inn and coconut shrimp.....so whenever you can cover the Red Sox, Waltz, and coconut shrimp in the first few minutes of meeting me I think you've got my attention. Next up we have Heather. Heather is from Garden City and besides my main man Tiger Woods, Heather has the nicest teeth I think I've ever seen. I'm sure everyone is glad they know this now. Candis used to go to highschool with Heather in Garden City before moving to Waltz....so that's the connection there. I knew nothing about Garden City and according to Heather there isn't much to know. So for the rest of the night Jeff and I talked to our new found friends and had a blast.

So much more happened than I could ever try to write and everyone who went has their own hilarious stories. A good time was had by all and I think we'd all stay for weeks if we could.

It was extremely hard to come back to school on monday and sit through 5 classes after having such a fun weekend. Not to mention today was the busiest day at work since I've been there.

Anyways.....that was my Polar Bear Club experience for 2006. That makes 5 years now. I can't wait to go back. Well I hope everyone has a great week and happy valentine's day to everyone.