We are assured that this activity that spans through tomorrow morning will be unpleasantly messy and very, very cold. The Polar Bears who are conducting the events, assure us that we will want to throw away the clothes we wear during the Saturday morning activities. I have scrounged donations of old clothing from the men. Because my checked bags didn t arrive with me on the airlines, I barely have enough clothes let alone any to throw away. The fine print on the Hair Cut Insurance I purchased gives me considerable pause for its validity.
Rumors seem to include overt hints of Arctic seawater.
No wonder it is called the Blue Nose Initiation. I can only guess. Although the Blue Nose Initiation is voluntary, I was signed up in a bantering and affable sort of way. The Polar Bears insist that the official certificate is well worth the grueling participation. Since I participated in a very cold Antarctic tradition in 1996 and survived, I decided to go for it.