Nanog-17 attendees, As co-host for NANOG-17, we hope to make your stay in Montreal a memorable one. We are planning a few activites to take place during the pre-NANOG weekend. Hopefully many of you will be flying in a day or two early to get a chance to see our beautiful 357 year old city, with its french culture and unique attractions. Due to the large number of attendees, I would appreciate some quick feedback on interest on the following activities so that we may book enough spaces and transportation for each activity: Visit: Teleglobe International Network Operations Center, Sunday morning and after tutorials on Sunday. This is a futuristic NOC complete with giant sized video screens, etc.... FREE 10am, 11am, 6pm. Fun: Indoor all-weather Go-Karting (9 horsepower go-karts, the most powerful available indoors). Includes overalls, helmet, computerized timing, warm-up, qualifications and final race. Three sessions totalizing 30 minutes of driving time. Podium with trophies and/or medals, etc.... 9pm to midnight on Sunday night. Cost: $35 CDN ($24 USD) per person, free transportation courtesy of Nortel Networks. More fun: Informal pub crawl for Saturday night. Visits to pubs/clubs on Crescent street and Old Montreal. Pay-you-own-beer. Night life: If the weather is good and there is enough interest, visit to Montreal's rooftop nightclub, Altitude 737 (awesome view, and you get to walk on the roof of Montreal's tallest building, which also houses one of the world's most powerful rotating searchlights). Saturday night, modest cover charge (about $10 CDN). Pay-your-own-drinks. Outdoors: if enough people are interested and the weather cooperates, climbing (hiking, really) of Mont St-Hilaire, nice 1000 foot or so mountain about 30 minutes east of Montreal. Free transportation. SATURDAY. Email me directly so that I may evaluate demand for each activity. We'll be putting up an e-commerce web site early next week to book the Go-Karts. Pascal Gosselin President Mlink Internet +---------------------------------------------------------------+ Pascal Gosselin Montréal, Québec, Toronto, Ottawa, Hull, pascal@Mlink.NET Calgary, Vancouver tel.(514) 861-3737 Mlink Internet Inc. http://www.Mlink.NET/ fax.(800) MLINK-84 tel. (888) MLINK-56