Polar Bear Plunge

I meant to write about this a really long time ago but just haven't done it.  So Ty is always coming home from school with things he has won from all these little contests they have at UVU.  He is always super excited to show me all his free stuff.  He has won shirts, sleeping bags, backpacks, shovels, camping chairs, water bottles, the list goes on and on.  Ty honestly is always so proud of the things he wins.  So a few weeks ago Ty was at school and he saw a big swimming pool set up.  He immediately ran over to see what was going on and they were doing the polar bear plunge.  They had filled the pool with freezing water and ice and put 100 pennies on the bottom.  To win the contest you had to get into the pool and try to collect as many pennies as you could off the bottom of the pool.  So Ty being the crazy that he is strips down to just his shorts (of coarse he had shorts on) in the middle of December and jumps in this freezing pool of ice.  Ty said the water was so cold he was having a hard time grabbing the pennies with his hand because they were shaking so bad.  A few of the people gave up after going under the water once because they couldn't take the cold.  Ty ended up with 23 pennies.  There were 12 people total in the pool and the next closest person had 13 pennies.  Ty was the winner!  Now here is the greatest part...he won an ipod touch!!!  Ty had been saving up his plasma money for months so he could buy one and he got one for free!  Ty was the happiest guy ever and he loves his ipod touch more than anything.