The Largest Mall in America…

Well, I am currently in the Super 8 in South Edmonton (SOUTH-siiiiiide), and I have no internet connection.  The lady at the front desk assures me that I “click on Super 8, no password needed, you connected.”  Hate to tell you – but I am NOT connected, thus unable to update my peeps.  Ah, but I digress.  Tomorrow I plan to find a place with REAL wi-fi, and get this published, but for the moment (8:39pm) I will just let it rest on my computer.

We only drove 610km today (I don’t feel like converting it, you do the math).  It wasn’t too bad, as I slept most of the ride (again).  We thought we’d make it quicker, so we pushed through lunch, and only had a continental breakfast, so we saved some really $$ today.  We finally ate at the Mall this evening in some weird Tiki Tom’s (Jumbo Jims? ) sorta restaurant. JUNGLE JIM’s .  THAT was it.  It was so-so, but they DID have sweet potato fries, which are my favorite.  Canada (CA-nada) has impressed me today with its rolling farmland, fancy looking horses, sweet potato fries and some wickedly good Green Tea Ginger Ale.  I told Rick this morning that I was drinking something with national pride, and it was NOT imported.  I snorted, he just smiled at me, although I am sure he didn’t find it funny.

Today’s plan was just to go to the mall.  The West Edmonton Mall has TONS to see and do.  It has an amusement park, a water park, bungee diving, putt-putt, an ice skating rink, and hundreds (thousands?) of stores.  We didn’t really shop, but we did walk around and located this pretty cool replica of the St. Maria (read your history folks!), and that was interesting to walk around on.

We went into Galaxyland, where we thought we’d just “look” but Kylen says “I wanna ride the roller coaster,” and you only live once…so on it we go.  Rickie is telling me (as I am buying the tickets) that he doesn’t think he wants to go.  Um, nope, we don’t separate, so you’ll go, and it will be okay.  Ha, ha, ha…he agrees to go. We stand in line for like 20 minutes (really wasn’t too bad), and we watch it go round and round a few times, and then we get on.  Kylen’s excited.  Rick and I are all for it, and Rickie’s iffy.  We go up, and when it starts to twist Kylen’s smile fades, and I start to snort.  Then Rickie starts yelling, “ THIS WAS A BAD CHOICE!  THIS WAS A BAD CHOICE!”  Kylen snaps out of her stupor to start screaming bloody murder.  We hit a slow spot and both kids stop screaming like they are dying. We tell them it is almost over, but nope, that doesn’t help.  The twisting starts again, and Kylen starts screaming, “ I HATE THIS RIDE.” Repeatedly, with vigor. I am banging my chest to catch my breath, Rick’s laughing so hard he’s crying, and the kids are terrified.  It was absolutely the best ride to date!

So that’s it for our time in CA-nada, tonight’s the last night.  Tomorrow we’ll be entering the US, and we are looking forward to our next adventure (two days til Mt Rushmore!).

Good night!

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