une masse de tripes / a whack of tubes
Just got back from a baha'i youth conference in Saint-Ferdinand, Quebec. It was mightily fun. We were on these rubber tubes that were real good for sliding. To get up the hill, we hooked one of these up to a sort of mechanical lift (basically a steel cable with hooks attached to it at regular intervals) that pulled us all the way up the hill. Then we stood at disaster's edge and pushed off. We spent some time inside, too - but outside is way cooler to look at.
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