Ice bucket challenge? Who started that challenge? It's weird alright! Just to set record straight that they can cope up with COLD ice? Wow! You are as cold as ice.
However, did we try this kind of euphoria when we went to the Spruce Lake where we camped there for three days and have to endure the cold winter temperature at night without heat but we're covered with thick blanket inside our tent. Still is it's really COLD. But it's better cold than hot you know. The heat from the bonfire keep us warm and kept the million bugs away but at night inside the tent and it was so dark in the forest beside the lake you'll never know how cold it was and the terrifying ordeal if ever there 's a roaming wild grizzlies or wild cougar is something inevitable and of course scary. In all those nights I never sleep just to keep myself alert and aware of what's happening or what will happen to us. But nothing weird happened to us except that when we swam to the freezing cold water of the lake. Freezing cold is the right words! It's not just bucket of ice cold water. We dipped our body and swim to the cold water. At first you can scream and shout but few minutes later your body will adapt to the coldness. I think the body went numbed at first but you have to wiggle your legs and keep on moving wading the water. It was cold to cool refreshing swim after all. Worse of all worse experience while camping is that there is no washroom in that area. Oh there is a toilet but 300 hundred ft. away from the campsite. You have to make your own washroom and or bring your arinola. LOL.
Then there's nothing so terrifying and awfully scary experience of all when the leeches are everywhere. I had one mother leech crawling on my leg. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhh! Shockingggggggggggggggggg! Crazy but it's happening like crazy! When I pulled the black leech it turned out that leech has too many small baby leeches left behind on my skin. My sister and brother in-law just stared and can't do anything. They were dumbfounded and shocked too. My hands were shaking nervously but have to get rid of those leeches or else those bloodsuckers will suck my blood. My God that put me in severe psychological traumatic moment. Everytime I remember such horrifying moment I couldn't help but scream and scream again. For God sake! We are camping not producing a horror movie. Why at the moment in time when I was in nostalgic dreaming of such wonders right before my eyes, taking photographs of the scenic view of the beautiful lake's calm dreamy state and the awesome mountain joined together and its reflection on the water is simply surreal and enigmatic and then suddenly I gazed my eyes on the right side of the mountain and suddenly on my mind thinking that the shape of the mountain looks like the summer worm (planaria). Yikkes! Right there I felt something crawling on my leg. OMG! It was that horrible leech! This is a true story. Just looking at those old photos I took capturing the beautiful sceneries ... I was reminded of an old movie that the area was used as scenery for the movie about Vampires and Draculas. No wonder.
Every time I looked at my leg there is that "scar" that reminds me of those leeches. It brought nightmares every now and then. So if you love money and you want millions of worms crawling on your body just to be famous on Fear Factor? Don't even try it because such bad experience is a life long severe mental trauma and is hard to cure. Money is everything but trauma > is no amount of money can cure it. It's the same with traumatic experienced by soldiers who went to war. Their war experience cannot be deleted, augmented nor it cannot be erased in their mental capacity to live a better life.
