Burkina style iceberg swimming

We staged our own little form of iceberg swimming a few weeks back.

Just for fun the weekend before Matt and Megan left, we filled 14 coolers with ice and placed them around the pool. Each person had to man a cooler, including the kiddos, and on the count of three everyone had to dump their cooler of ice in the water, and then jump in. You had to be fast, otherwise it would melt before you got in.

It was the most random, silly and cold thing to do.
But it was so much fun.

It was well over 100 degrees that afternoon so the ice only lasted a matter of minutes, but it was worth it.

Here are the lone remnants after like three minutes. 

I think I'll take this version over the crazies who go running into a freezing ocean or lake in the middle of winter. This way you get the rush of cold, and then it all melts and is nice and warm again. =) And for someone who doesn't like to be cold...this is the way to iceberg swim right here.

So. much. fun.