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No Ordinary Day » Dressed in a polar bear costume, David Serxner, 41, emerges from the 40-degree waters of Lake Raleigh during the second annual Polar Plunge on Saturday. About 70 participants took part in the event, which raised more than $14,000 for the N.C. Special Olympics. ‘I don’t think; I just jump in,’ Serxner said. ‘I get really heavy. That thing [the costume] takes on water. That’s why I have the floatie.’ Serxner said, ‘It’s all for a good cause and it’s the one day of the year I get to take the polar bear out of the closet.’

Dressed in a polar bear costume, David Serxner, 41, emerges from the 40-degree waters of Lake Raleigh during the second annual Polar Plunge on Saturday. About 70 participants took part in the event, which raised more than $14,000 for the N.C. Special Olympics. 'I don't think; I just jump in,' Serxner said. 'I get really heavy. That thing [the costume] takes on water. That's why I have the floatie.' Serxner said, 'It's all for a good cause and it's the one day of the year I get to take the polar bear out of the closet.'

Dressed in a polar bear costume, David Serxner, 41, emerges from the 40-degree waters of Lake Raleigh during the second annual Polar Plunge on Saturday. About 70 participants took part in the event, which raised more than $14,000 for the N.C. Special Olympics. ‘I don’t think; I just jump in,’ Serxner said. ‘I get really heavy. That thing [the costume] takes on water. That’s why I have the floatie.’ Serxner said, ‘It’s all for a good cause and it’s the one day of the year I get to take the polar bear out of the closet.’

Mike Grace, 21, cuts the wedding cake as his mate, Leanne Simon, 28, kisses her 'boyfriend' Brian Highfill, 22, during Grace and Simon's nuptial celebration at Ringside nightclub in Durham. 'We are both committed to each other as well as complete freedom,' Simon says. 'We're both capable of loving each other and different people at the same time and to various degrees. ... That shouldn't stop people who care for each other from having a healthy relationship and not letting petty emotions like jealousy or possessiveness get in the way.' The couple met at the club and have been dating for more than a year. The party featured vows, a spanking of the bride rather than a traditional kiss, a DJ who played gothic and industrial dance music, and sushi served on the abdomen of a female partygoer. Grace and Simon plan to have an official wedding ceremony with a justice of the peace.
Nine-year-old Joey Moore of Youngsville shows off his makeshift knight costume while attending, the Camelot Christmas Holiday Event, his first medieval-themed outing, at the N.C. State Fairgrounds. 'He likes all sorts of knights, shinning armor and stuff,' said Joey's mother, Alesia Moore. 'He has a huge wardrobe of costumes he puts together. ... Bless his heart, he has an adult sized head. So we took a bucket and painted it silver.' Joey's father, Albert, fashioned Joey's chain mail from a mesh laundry bag procured from the Dollar Store. Joey plans to make the event a Moore family tradition.

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