Great job, and good for you for sticking with it when you felt like quitting! I can't imagine immersing myself in water that cold.

And yeah, the duck is almost worth all that training and exhaustion, isn't it? I think I startled my boss this morning--we were going over seating arrangements for an upcoming event at work, and one of our tables is sold to Aflac--I was reading the names off the chart and said that one in the "duck voice" (which really isn't in character for me). Fortunately she got the joke and doesn't seem to think I'm completely insane.