Yesterday I decided I would visit Edmonton after all. I was going to leave it out and come back this summer, but I had some time and just went for it. The plan was to see my friend and my cousin, but my friend had to work.
I started out at the West Edmonton Mall, but quickly turned around and met a different friend at Starbucks. I went back to the Mall and actually wandered around inside. I was very underwhelmed. Like the age-old adage goes “Once you've seen one shopping centre, you've seen a mall”. If you don't find that joke absolutely hysterical, please leave this blog and go rethink your life... or at least your sense of humor. For the rest of you, West Edmonton Mall is pretty much a normal mall, but its quite a bit larger, and it has elements of a theme park interspersed through it. I never saw the whole mall, and I heard later that they had penguins in there, which may have impressed me had I seen them, but alas it didn't happen. They had a skating rink there too. I was watching the skaters for about a minute until I realized that I was watching a bunch of 8 year old girls in skin coloured spandex unitards doing figure skating, and that I probably looked super creepy... so I moved on.
After the mall, I went to my cousin's place. They served me dinner, then we went out to a bowling alley, which had an hour long waiting list to play at. We decided to leave and go get ice cream.
My cousin is a site supervisor for Habitat for Humanity. After staying at my cousin's place overnight, I went and volunteered for a few hours, installing a few windows and doors.
If you haven't guessed or heard: Edmonton isn't a particularly exciting city...
Tonight I plan on seeing more cousins over a few beers.
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| A typical Albertain vehicle |
That's pretty much been my last few days. Vote for Pedro.
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