Every year for nineteen years now people do a crazy thing to bring in the new year. They register to jump into the freezing water of lake Minnetonka commonly know as the annual polar plunge. This year originally three-hundred and eighty-eight people registered to do this insanely cold jump. Later, after others wanted to join the fun it turned out that nine-hundred and eight people made this jump just for fun. They said people from all over the world came to experience this frigid event. For instance, people for Canada, England, Iran, and Jamaica all came in addition to the locals. There was also a cub scout pack that learned that their assistant cub master was diagnosed with cancer so they made the plunge to raise money to help support his family in this worrisome time. I do not fully understand why so many people did this but I guess it would be pretty cool to just be able to say that you did.