Is it too cold to swim?!

Well, everyone in New York will be happy to know that snow has finally come to the Cape. We have had snow on the ground for the past week and it has been in the low to med 30s. It has also snowed everyday for the last three or four days. This morning it was only 1 degree and I almost felt like I was back in Rochester. The last couple weeks have been pretty much the same stuff. We did another WET Fest and did some oyster harvesting. Well, I should say my housemates did oyster harvesting. I was too sick to go and went to the doctor's instead. I had bronchitis. I do have some exciting news to share though, well a couple fun things.

Snowy Ocean, Cape Cod

My new roommate has finally arrived. She is from Maine and fits right in with our loud, crazy group. It will take me a couple days to get use to sharing a room again. On Saturday, I gave her a little mini tour of our part of the Cape. I showed her where all the important things were: Dunkin Donuts, Stop and Shop, Wal-mart, and things like that. LOL

Yesterday, both houses got to do a service project together, which does not happening very often. It was fun to see everyone from the other house and spend the day with them. We planted beach grass on sand dunes to help slow erosion. It was one of my favorite projects so far. We got to be outside all day planting! What could be better?

Planting beach grass (Sorry, no good ones of me)
The sand dune before planting
The sand dune after planting, sorta looks like hair. :)

Planting the grass.

So, after the beach grass planting a group of us decided that we wanted to do a polar plunge. Yep, you read that right. We jumped in the ocean with snow on the beach and the temperature around 31. It was cold but surprisingly not as cold as you would think. I am glad I did it. One more thing I can check off my "Lifelong To Do List". Enjoy the pictures.

Running out of the cold, cold ocean