Carpe Diem!

It has been another exciting week in Canada. Currently I'm back home since yesterday for 2 weeks, the 25th I'll fly out of here again, looking forward to it already :-)
Not that I'm not enjoying myself here. It's great to see my friends and family again, but I can't wait to see all the rest there is to see in Canada and on top of that I'll be spending to much money here, having a holiday at home (drinking and eating all the delicious things they don't have in Canada).
How did it all end, well I didn't die from the bungee that's for sure, you could say it was close though. After some sightseeing in Ottawa, the next stop was the bungee jump location and just by looking at the damm jump platform, my stomach already squeezed together. It's a 200 feet jump (I think about 70m) and they say it's the highest in North Canada, with a rebound off 160 feet, so you can enjoy it over and over again. Anyway I managed to get up there, but then the hardest part still had to come, jumping off the fucking thing, head first. I really haven't felt this scared in my entire life. I'm a bit afraid of hights but I wanted to try it so that I maybe could get over that fear (it might work backworths as well). I needed some time before I jumped and when I eventually did it, I had to close my eyes before jumping. After that it felt great, you bounce back up, feeling weightless for a moment and you get the rush over again falling down. In my head I was calmer then it looked on the movie though. You see me jumping in the air with my legs and trying to grap something with my arms (force of human instinct to survive I suppose). The adrenaline boost I felt afterworths made me feel good for a long while :-) it was worth it (for people who are to afraid of hights to do this, try skydiving much nicer). We ended the day with a nice barbecue at the best hostel I've ever stayed in, HI Esprit (worth going to when you're in the neighbourhood).
The next day another adventure was waiting us, Whitewater rafting on the Ottawa river, guided by Espirt. It was another great experience. A pitty it was raining all day and that it was 7° outside but that couldn't kill the spirit, we were going to get wet anyway, the water was even warmer then the outside temperature, we were just asking to get wet. Besides the awsome rapids we did, we also had a gorgeous view over nature. In the middle of the river, nature all around us, we saw a beaver swimming, a blue herron flying, another big bird (which name I can't remember) flying to its nest with a fish in its claws, ... we even saw a small bambi (cute).

Our last stop with the Moose bus was in Madawaska, the eastern gate to Algonquin National park. We spend another 2 nights here, went hiking in the park, chilled out for a bit, ... and got eaten by black fly's and all other flying and biting things around. If you didn't used liters of bugspray you would wake up with heeps of red dots the next morning and even with the spray, they would always find a sport where you haden't sprayed, awful creatures.
Then on thursday we drove back to Toronto, where we got confronted with the deathly traffic of one of the busiest highways in the world, 16 lanes for traffic and still jammed. I told this before, but it stays impressive.
That was the end of the Moose trip (after some saying goodby drinks on the bus) and also from my eastern adventure. I haven't seen everyhting yet, but at least I can say that I saw more of the country then some Canadian people, living there.
The next stop after Brussels will be the Rockie Mountains!