Montreal - Part Three

With a busy day planned we met in the hotel dining room for an early breakfast before driving two hours to Mont-Tremblant for a day of fun in the snow. It took longer than expected to get rental gear but the kids still had time to hit the slopes. Nick decided to snowboard, thinking that it would be more like skateboarding. After all the kids had boarded ski lifts, we chaperones took to the shops. We also found a warm and inviting pizza restaurant and had a lovely lunch.

Unfortunately, there was trauma before the afternoon was over when three of our students didn't make it back to the bus on time. Two chaperones stayed behind to wait for them, learning that two of the three had just taken a trail that went to the wrong side of the mountain. However, the other missing student had been injured and was taken to the hospital to be checked out. Thankfully, his mother, who was born in Montreal, was one of the chaperones and also spoke french. Her son was a bit shaken and hurt pretty much all over but his tests turned out fine.

Another two hour drive and we were back at the hotel to dress up for our evening at the dinner theater. John the Bus Driver got us as close to the Le Festin Du Gouverneur Dinner Theater in downtown Montreal as possible but we still had an icy, cold walk down a long city block to the warm restaurant. The wind chill must have been about -20 degrees. It was worth the walk becuase the dinner theater recreated a 17th century banquet and once again the kids were included in the show.

We were happy to receive an update on the student at the hospital when we returned to the hotel. His tests all came out clear and he and his mother were on their way back to the hotel.