StLaurent

Hi Buddy,
Good news: here are 19 guys want to join us until now.
Bad news: we need totally 18 more car seats but we just have 10 seats (3 more seats from humo and 7 seats from my rented minivan).
Two ways to solve this problem:
One is to rent more cars with more volunteer drivers. It might be more expensive.
The other is that I’ll try to arrange some kind of bus with driver from tomorrow.
I’d real appreciate if anyone can help. Thanks and hope we'll be lucky.

HHello

We will join the group:

3 adults,
2 kids (one is four years old,one is 6 months).

With car.

HHello

Weekend strongly preferred.

We can introduce more people join us
to make a group more than 25.

lingyb@yahoo.com

bigchen

5 people including children
best thanks

contact me in tokenwing@yahoo.com.cn

StLaurent

Hi Guys,

Here is some updated news:

TIME:   I called to the hot balloon festival info centre. At 6:00pm will be the Evening flights. 125 hot air balloons take off simultaneously with classical or popular music in the background, covering the sky with an impressive dance of shapes and colors.

At 8:30pm (Not 10:30pm) will be the Night glows – (Only at August 12, 13, and 14). The balloons are not flight, just stand on the ground. As soon as the sun goes down, they change into immense Chinese lanterns, standing up proudly in the darkness.

So I think we can back earlier in order to catch up public transportations.

TRANSPORTATION: I called the school bus rental company. One school bus (48 seats) 12 hours rental to Saint-Jean-Sur-Richelieu (place of hot balloon festival) with driver (no tips for driver needed) cost $270 plus tax. That means plus parking $5 (I guess for bus will be the same as car) and tax, we all should pay $270 + 7% + 7.5% + 5 = $316.

Until now we have gathered about 28 persons and 22 persons need seat. I’m sure we’ll find more. I’ll keep the update news everyday. Thank you all and welcome all!

New members:
-7. 忧郁狗 robert_qiang@hotmail.com
-8. 懵碴碴 762-4580
-9. shuiken
-10. Mr. Zheng
-11. buxihuan (2 guys) tunna@sohu.com
-12. petit_corn (3 guys) shzhou_2000@yahoo.com
-13. CKTC cktc_ca@yahoo.ca
-14. just blue awaytothestar@hotmail.com
-15. HHello (3 adults + 2 children with car) lingyb@yahoo.com
-16. bigchen (5 people with children) tokenwing@yahoo.com.cn

Cat A Fish

Hi: StLaurent,
You did a really good job. If you guys decide to go for ballon show at any one of 12、13、14日, pls count me in to share the bus fee. thx

YZZ

StLaurent费心了. 大家应该会念着你的好.  eek!

maple2

我们有2个人，很想去。请联系：yli102@po-box.mcgill.ca

StLaurent

Hi there,

Thank you for your compliment. I’m very happy to find we all enjoy our lives here. I think this is one of the common characters of human being, no matter our Chinese or whatever other nations.

About fees:  
If you agree, I suggest we employ a principle of child pay less $1 than adult.
Suppose we have x adults and y children, let’s say z is the transportation fee for adult, we get: z*x + (z-1)*y = 316; so, z = (316 + y) / (x + y); here ((x + y) ≤ 48). Am I right? Sorry for bothering you guys with math.

I suggest we establish a lot for fun and solve the problem of changes by the way. We roundup the amount to $1 when we collect the fees. The difference between $316 and the amount we collect eventually, no matter how much, as the happy for the lot. Everyone has the chance to win!

YZZ, please help me doing this, ok?

About Time:
The official website says only 20 minutes from Montreal to site. Let’s count double, 40 minutes. So we can set out at 4:30pm and 5:10pm we are there. As to the time go back. I have no idea about that. Let’s decide it on bus.

Place for gathering:
I don't know if the front of Concordia Hall Building is ok. I'll check it tomorrow.

The weather forecast says Aug. 12 will be shower. But it's ok. We can decide it until Friday noon.

downtown

StLaurent: 小车从市中心到目的地需要半小时左右，乘坐BUS要慢一些。如果你把时间选在周二，4:30正是下班高峰期，单是过champlain桥起码花上一个小时。而且去晚了不容易找停车位，也没有时间留给小孩子玩游乐场。建议2点－2点半出发比较适宜。