A World Record: Swimming in a Wisconsin Lake in April

So, I didn't expect to stop blogging before I even started here, but isn't that the way it goes? I'm back for the summer, in an attempt to record our second summer at the cabin. The first was amazing. We went up in April of 2011 and were overjoyed at how amazing spring was, given how much we enjoyed the winter we were surprised that the summer could be even better. This winter we spent less time at Horseshoe lake. It just wasn't wintery... Sure we bought an auger and ice fished (pictures to come) and enjoyed some legos and puzzles and cocoa. But there just wasn't that 19 inch snow storm that we enjoyed in 2011. By April we were shocked to have open water that was TOLERABLE for a dip... A polar dip, yes, but dip nonetheless.