DAY 1 - DÉFI HIVERNAL 2007

WINTER CHALLENGE 2007 – DÉFI HIVERNAL 2007

Cette semaine a surement été la meilleure semaine de ma vie... c’était à peine comparable à la semaine aux JMJ à Toronto en 2002, ou le voyage en Angleterre pour le mariage de Véro, ou le mois passé dans la jungle amazonienne au Pérou en 2004...

DAY 1 – JOUR 1 (lundi 22 Janvier)

Wake up! Alex’s alarm is ringing! This means it’s 5h40 am! w00t! Day one yeah! …man the night was short, feels like its more 4h40 than… wait… it IS 4h40 am! Damn you Alex!

Ainsi fut mon réveil du lundi, et même en essayant très fort de me rendormir pour 1h, je n’ai pas réussit. We started the set up in front of tabaret, assembled the catapults (used strainers as the compartment to place the ball), traced lines on the ground... got all our walkie talkies, headsets and the awesome cool pouches to wear the walkie talkies, tested the challenge circuit and CRACK, one of the plastic strainers broke because of the cold… Hammel! Quick! Go to Loeb and buy metal bowls of some kind before the teams start arriving!!

And do some crazy teams started showing up: team “Drunk, Clumy, Stupid and Drunk” rocked the house and their HUGE flag with holes for the heads was just too cool. We a team who did a remake of the “Dick in a box” video, it was pretty traumatizing, yet funny. Julie’s team theme was S.W.A.T. on that day so they showed up all in black with bullet proof vests and guns and rope and walki talkies and shit… and they tried to kidnap me! We had “Les pets de loup” who were wearing strange silver sweat suits, with hand made scarves, head bands and thongs (all knitted by Caroline!).

Il faisait assez frette merci, donc j’ai passé pas mal de temps à la table de stats à rentrer les temps des equips dans le laptop en buvant du chocolat chaud pendant que les autres se gelaient les orteils dehors... comme c’est dur la vie! Pour les stats, c’est plus rapide à deux, sauf quand c’est Alex qui aide et qu’il cogne des clous... J’ai aussi eu des regards bizarres du DJ poche... il aurait du concentrer sur enchaîner les tunes comme il faut au lieu de faire des beaux yeux aux bénévoles!

After the take-down and the debriefing, we went to the St-Hubert for some good food and good ranting (for some people). Some pretty funny stories were told, like Dave’s boss’s daughter story… and some not so funny stories, like Alex’s triple date story (remember that time we parked at the other end of the parking? Man, was that funny or what! :oP you know I’m kidding!). We went back to the office for last minute preparations for Tuesday, like building a Lego structure which should take two people less than a minute to build, while using only one hand each. Apparently my structure sucked, but at least it was the right… complexity. AND we played with Legos for another hour before leaving the office!