Tervuren The members of youth club Den Troemel in Vossem may have are known for their crazy ideas, even so, they are now Saturday for an absolute stunt. In the gemeentezaal they organize the main ballenbadfuif of Flanders. As much as 120,000 balls are from the Netherlands to Vossem met.
18.000 balls in 2016, 24.000 a year later, to 60,000 last year and is now a 120,000 balls: youth club Den Troemel in Vossem is the proud organizer of the biggest ballenbadfuif in Flanders. “It is just, therefore, that we this year for 120.000 balls to choose”, says Dario Demol, one of the organizers of the party. “We discovered that the current record to 80,000, and that we wanted to exceed.”
A nice idea, but the execution had initially had some feet in the earth. The Dutch supplier had not about 120.000 colored balls. “The stock to expand, saw the company do not sit”, Dario Demol further. “But the company had still a whole bunch of transparent balls in stock. Because the number of 120,000 balls have not wanted to reduce it, we have decided to both colored as transparent copies to work. Any downside: the colored and the transparent balls may not by one another be removed. Therefore, we work with two separate basins. That will completely be closed off with nets so the various balls of each other, remain separate. In the bath with the transparent balls we will be with colored lights works to provide a special effect to create.”
Three vans
the cost of the party what to press, the members of youth club Den Troemel Friday to the Netherlands to have the balls to pick up. They do that with three vans. “It will be a hellish job, but that way, we do the transportation costs not to pay,” says Dario Demol. “Sunday, everything must be re-cleaned in the gemeentezaal and we bring the balls back to the Netherlands. That it was not a quiet weekend, we know all too well (laughs).”
In just four years, from 18,000 to 120,000 balls: where is the end of this? “After the party we will have a review of our fourth edition, and accordingly we will decide whether or not to the next year of 120,000 balls keep, or that we are the still grander”, Dario Demol clear.
