New Year’s Dive...

Jimmy thought I was crazy, but this year I wanted us to do the New Year’s Dive into the North Sea in Scheveningen. It meant getting up early and heading to the beach in hopes of getting tickets to participate with 10,000 other crazy people. After getting tickets, we spent over an hour on the beach warming up by dancing; several of our friends were also there, but we never found them among the crowds. About 11:45 a.m. we dropped our clothes and got in position to make the run down to the water.

At noon we started running down to the water, which was much further than we realized. We were very lucky that it was an unseasonably warm day with air temps of 52F/11C and water temps of 46F/8C. Even so, the water still felt like icy needles against my legs. Silly Jimmy actually dove under the water, but us girls only went in to our thighs. He enjoyed it so much that he’s already talking about what to do differently for next year.

Jimmy shared the video he shot with his GoPro with a local news station. We were surprised that they posted one entire segment on their website. You might also be interested in a slideshow recapping 2011 that Veronica made with photos from this blog. If you weren’t in it, you need to be sure to visit us in 2012.