Over spring break, I went down to Gulf Shores, Alabama with my fiance and his family. I was really excited to be by the ocean and wanted to go swimming. Unfortunately, our school's spring break was the first full week of March and it was only in the 60s in AL. But, having grown up in Minnesota and going to school in Wisconsin, high 60s wasn't too bad. So one day my fiance and I go down to the beach and there's a fair sized crowd there, just sitting on the sand. No one is in the water. We started wading and it was COLD! But I wasn't going to let that stand in the way of my vacation. Pretty soon, I had gone numb from the waist down and decided to just dive in and get over it. Well, we ended up staying in the ocean for about 2 hours. Towards the end, a few other people, mostly little kids, followed our example and started swimming as well. The rest just looked at us like we were insane. It was a lot of fun.
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