First swim of the year

All weekend the kids begged to go swimming....at the beach.  It defies common sense to go swimming yet, the ice has barely been off the lake, or so it seems.  But they keep on asking and so last night Dad said to take them in and they can see it is still too cold.  We pull into the beach parking lot and it was full of people with no common sense. 

Spark ran down to the water and jumped right in.  Dancer was a little more hesitant but she too submerged.  She only swam for about half an hour, all the while telling us how cold it was on the bottom.  Spark was in there for over a hour and sure didn't look cold.  Perhaps he is part polar bear.  We should go in and take the temp of the water and see just how cold it was.