Flurry Festival

What do people in Northern Michigan do near the end of a long, cold, icy, snowy winter?

They celebrate by freezing their asses off in creative ways during the annual Flurry Festival.

There were three events during the Flurry Festival today. There was the cardboard sled race (where people race sleds downhill, made of cardboard and duct tape), the polar bear dip (where a hole is cut in the ice and stupid people jump in the lake through the hole), and the outhouse race (where people build outhouses on skis and race them down the street. Very classy.)

My parents and I took some pictures of the first two events, but we were too cold to watch people race outhouses. Maybe next year. :)

This is the cardboard sled race.
Look at them go!











Another pict of sled race.











Two guys about to jump in the water.












They looked a little chilly coming out.











This guy looks like he is drowning, but he is not.
He actually jumped through a hole in the ice *on purpose*!