Hello 2010. Here we see Chalupa and Buzz standing in front of the Event Center with one of the volunteer hosts for the Ice Jump. More on that later in this post.
Above we see Big Dawg and the Reeveletts playing some computer games on the couch. Across the street is our Mankato Chateau still looking for a buyer with an eye for beauty and location, location, location. Below we see the Big Dawg during his first foray into skiing at the breathtaking slopes of Mount Kato. He was zipping along when this shot was taken. I told him to bend his knees but he was in a panic and trying not to wipe-out that he failed to hear me. 
The picture below was taken in the car while driving home from the Twin Cities on January 2. Shortly after getting this picture, the temp actually dropped to -26. A new record for this automobile. WOW!
The freezing (dangerously cold) temps didn't prevent Peanut and Chalupa from nesting in the back seat of the van to sleep off the crazy week of holiday and vacation activities.
This was the scene in the warming house just before the jump in Lake Minnetonka. This is an accurate picture of some of the nuts that make the plunge. The first jump on goes in as a Guppy and comes out a Minnow. The following year you go in as a Minnow and come out as a Pike and so on and so forth. In 2011, Chalupa will enter as a Walleye (4 years) and come out as a Barracuda 5. Buzz will become a Barracuda 6. After ten registered jumps (no two in the same year), a person qualifies for the SHARK robe.
Here we are just minutes before we exited the staging tent for our 2010 plunge.
We are not smiling, that's our teeth chattering away. Anyway, Happy New Year one and all! Cheers! 
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