♪I know I know for sure...life is beautiful around the world♪
This entry is for Mau, who said tonight "hurry up & post your adventures from Edmonton." So Mau, this is for you ;)
My trip to Edmonton was good. Saturday morning, I got up super-early to catch the bus at 8:30am, then Natasha picked me up at the bus station. We decided to check out West Edmonton mall. Now for those of you who don't know, it's one of the biggest malls in the world - about 800 stores, and an amusement park, skating rink, some animals, minigolf, and many other things. It's one of the big things of Edmonton, but most Edmontonians hate it. Which is understandable. We wandered around the entire mall, looked at some of the stores, moreso the attractions. But it was just too damn big & crowded for me! We should have bought the day pass & stayed in the amusement park - it has the world's largest indoor roller coaster, which was pretty fun looking. Oh well, next time.
Heh...funny thing, when we were going to the mall. Natasha grew up in Edmonton, but got us lost on the way there! Her excuse was that she usually either took the bus, or someone else drove. LOL.
Post-mall, we drove around a bit, went to where Natasha was staying. Also, we found a hostel for me to stay in that night (since Natasha was staying at the parents' of a friend's place, so she didn't feel right about asking if I could crash there also) I had no problems staying at the hostel, but Natasha was worried about me staying there. LOL. She was trying to convince me to pay 3-4 times the money to stay in a nicer hotel! Plus if I end up going to Europe in May, then I will stay in hostels there!
We went for a late dinner, at this Italian restaurant which was really good. I made Natasha have a strawberry daiquiri, so she didn't want to drive afterwards (which was alright, since I didn't want to go home quite yet :P) I sort of wanted to check out a pub with live music, but we couldn't find one. And Natasha didn't want to go to a club, and pubs suck with only 2 people. So we ended up going to Second cup & hanging out there. I got back to the hostel about 12:15am, and while I had felt tired earlier, I wasn't tired enough to go to bed. All the girls I was sharing the room with (there were 6 of us in a room) were in bed, so I opted to get into my pajamas & such, and went down to the tv room. I ended up talking for an hour there to a guy who grew up on Baffin Island!
On Sunday, I met Natasha at Starbucks, and then we went & met up with her friend Meghan. We toured around University of Alberta, which is HUGE! Some parts of it were gorgeous. They have a few newer engineering buildings which were so nice - made me super-jealous. However, their chem eng building was not, and that did not make me jealous :P But UW is so ugly compared to a lot of campuses - U of A had some nice old-looking buildings (which I love on campuses!) and TREES! My school needs more trees, and not as much concrete :P Then, Meghan left us shortly after, and Natasha & I walked by the North Saskatchewan River, through Horlack Park & Emily Murphy Park. It was a nice walk, although quite overcast, so some of my pictures are looking a little grey. Afterwards, we went for lunch at this nice bakery/cafe on Whyte Ave, then looked at some of the shops there. Caught a bus back to Calgary at 5:30pm, and was home by 9:30pm. Twas a great time!! :D
My trip to Edmonton was good. Saturday morning, I got up super-early to catch the bus at 8:30am, then Natasha picked me up at the bus station. We decided to check out West Edmonton mall. Now for those of you who don't know, it's one of the biggest malls in the world - about 800 stores, and an amusement park, skating rink, some animals, minigolf, and many other things. It's one of the big things of Edmonton, but most Edmontonians hate it. Which is understandable. We wandered around the entire mall, looked at some of the stores, moreso the attractions. But it was just too damn big & crowded for me! We should have bought the day pass & stayed in the amusement park - it has the world's largest indoor roller coaster, which was pretty fun looking. Oh well, next time.
Heh...funny thing, when we were going to the mall. Natasha grew up in Edmonton, but got us lost on the way there! Her excuse was that she usually either took the bus, or someone else drove. LOL.
Post-mall, we drove around a bit, went to where Natasha was staying. Also, we found a hostel for me to stay in that night (since Natasha was staying at the parents' of a friend's place, so she didn't feel right about asking if I could crash there also) I had no problems staying at the hostel, but Natasha was worried about me staying there. LOL. She was trying to convince me to pay 3-4 times the money to stay in a nicer hotel! Plus if I end up going to Europe in May, then I will stay in hostels there!
We went for a late dinner, at this Italian restaurant which was really good. I made Natasha have a strawberry daiquiri, so she didn't want to drive afterwards (which was alright, since I didn't want to go home quite yet :P) I sort of wanted to check out a pub with live music, but we couldn't find one. And Natasha didn't want to go to a club, and pubs suck with only 2 people. So we ended up going to Second cup & hanging out there. I got back to the hostel about 12:15am, and while I had felt tired earlier, I wasn't tired enough to go to bed. All the girls I was sharing the room with (there were 6 of us in a room) were in bed, so I opted to get into my pajamas & such, and went down to the tv room. I ended up talking for an hour there to a guy who grew up on Baffin Island!
On Sunday, I met Natasha at Starbucks, and then we went & met up with her friend Meghan. We toured around University of Alberta, which is HUGE! Some parts of it were gorgeous. They have a few newer engineering buildings which were so nice - made me super-jealous. However, their chem eng building was not, and that did not make me jealous :P But UW is so ugly compared to a lot of campuses - U of A had some nice old-looking buildings (which I love on campuses!) and TREES! My school needs more trees, and not as much concrete :P Then, Meghan left us shortly after, and Natasha & I walked by the North Saskatchewan River, through Horlack Park & Emily Murphy Park. It was a nice walk, although quite overcast, so some of my pictures are looking a little grey. Afterwards, we went for lunch at this nice bakery/cafe on Whyte Ave, then looked at some of the shops there. Caught a bus back to Calgary at 5:30pm, and was home by 9:30pm. Twas a great time!! :D
posted by Jill at
11:34:00 p.m.
2 Comments:
I'm famous! Yay me! Thanks for posting... Although your weekend wasn't nearly as adventurous as I anticipated. Cool about the Baffin Island guy though. :)
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Maureen, at 3:04 p.m.
Sounds like a great trip.
Keep updating gal!
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Anonymous, at 11:25 a.m.
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