Day 16 - July 1st

By Mariëlla Verhage and Bram Julsing

Although there were no excursions planned, the day began again too early. The trip of 240 km started of course with the “opsta-CD” and went to Mont Tremblant. It was really a non-chilling ride, because the roads we drove on were absolutely horrible. Those French guys don’t know how to make proper roads (or they just don’t have enough money). Finally, after hours of being tortured, we reached the idyllic hostel. Unfortunately we were not permitted to bring our just new bought beers into the hostel.

The reason for the too early wake up call was a new part in the program of this day: a visit to the Mont Tremblant racing circuit, where the Champcar racing event took place. For most of us it was a nice surprise that also a Dutch guy joined the race: Robert Doornbos. The guy was very lucky, because thanks to our massive support he won the race! The greatest part was the ceremony in which the ‘Wilhelmus’ was played for the winner and all of us sang out of our lungs with our national anthem. To congratulate our hero we waited for over half an hour at the Minardi-tent, making new songs for Robert.

When the race was finished we had dinner in a local restaurant (with wifi). There was a TV with the press conference of the race, and Tomas and Boris were encouraging Robert Doornbos again and were interviewed by a journalist that had dinner next to them.

The mysterious activity of the night appeared to be a monkey-acrobat-journey in the black forest of Mont Tremblant. It was a really adventuring and challenging tour through the tops of the trees over cables, ropes, skateboards, small stairs, zipping lines and wooden blocks. The most exciting part was to jump on the toccle-unit into the darkest part of the dark forest, while you weren’t able to see the end.

After the exhausting activity most of the group went back to the hostel for a beer and a night of sleep, but 6 lucky guys (Arnout, Johan, Lars, Boris, Tomas and BramJ) went out in the city. They found a very nice club were a big party was going on for the national day of Canada. The beer there was very cheap and the chicks were very hot. Stickers were sticked on nice “locations” and of course beautiful pictures were taken of that particular part of the study tour organized by the board of Scintilla (make the most original photograph in Canada with a Scintilla Sticker).