West Edmonton Mall, Alberta Canada

29th June 2012 - St. Albert, Edmonton - Alberta

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We finally found St Albert and the Kinsmen RV Park.  This lovely clock tower sits at the junction of Sir Winston Churchill Road and Grenier Rd.  The buildings with the light green roofs are apartments-I thought they were unusual. 

Well, if the Canadian Rockies are nature's showpiece, then the West Edmonton Mall is an architect's showpiece. Yes...it is a ship inside the Mall - this is the Sea Lion's Rockpool.  There are 2 sea lion shows twice a day, there are also paddle boats for the littlies.

Another cool entertainment - suspension bridges, good way to burn up the kids' energies in winter.

The Mall is beautifully appointed-this section has lovely old style shop fronts.

Ice world - they have seasonal ice hockey games played here as well a normal ice skating.

No, we didn't eat here..Tom might have gotten distracted from his food. We met up with my brother Chris and his  family for dinner at the Mall and the girls are only 11 and 13, so not suitable for them.

We found 2 food courts at the Mall - one was more upmarket with the likes of Tony Romas, the above Red Piano and I suppose I have to include Hooters as they were in the same food court. The other had the usual Mexican, Chinese, Japanese fast food style outlets.

The Carousel is in Galaxyland-one for the family. The Carousel is not the only ride in Galaxyland.

Water world - check out the water slides. 

My brother and his girls went on or should I say in them and had a ball.

Now this one is Insane!! The g force turns and the noise of the rollercoaster screaming inches away from me had me screaming - and I wasn't even on the ride!!

This is my niece Faith...that's her telling her Uncle Tom he's so "huggable". (we just had dinner).   I don't know if that's good or bad the huggable bit I mean. They were leaving the next day to Golden then back to Vancouver.  There was a substantial landslide at Revelstoke which stopped their trip to Golden so they had to replan their vacation and do Edmonton first and Golden on their return journey. We were lucky that we were a few days ahead of the landslide and floods that have affected the small townships before Golden. 

Took this on our way to the Mall.  Had to stop for the train to past and this guy nonchalantly got out of his car and in front of all of us took relief...what a class act or not! Lesson here - don't shake hands with people, never know what they've been doing prior. Uugghh.