Good Morning! Another glorious day and Ziggy and I took a long walk in the grassy field. Jeff slept in and we finally got our act together around 11am. First stop was the RV store to pick up a few things. Next we scouted out a few GM dealers trying to find a lug nut with no success. So we drove through an historic area of Edmonton and declared it a really nice city. The people we’ve met are also nice, friendly and very kind to strangers. They offer to help with directions and where to find things and are just a pleasure.
Our destination today was Fort Edmonton Park. This is a living history park built on the site of the original fur trading fort of the Hudson Bay Company. The park today is 158 acres and after entering we took the old steam train to the 1846 fort complex. Next we walked to the 1885 street and then the 1905 street. A 1920 street is the final set all of which had actual homes and businesses from Edmonton as well as staff members dressed in costume posing as townspeople from that era. Along the way there were stagecoach and wagon rides and a real streetcar. We were able to shop in the old general store and get cones in an ice cream parlor. The place was very well done and really let you experience how things changed in history. For fun there was miniature golf, a shooting arcade and the end was a amusement area circa 1920. Jeff and I rode on the beautiful carousel and then got caught in a downpour which left us soaked as we ran to the parking lot.
Dripping wet we drove to the west Edmonton Mall. They call this the greatest indoor show on earth and I must say I am impressed. The Mall of America seems shabby compared to this mega mall which we are told is the largest in the world. Someone told us there are 56 entrances and I must say they are very well marked as are the covered parking areas. The mall is two levels and we found it refreshing that most of the stores are not ones in the US malls. Special attractions are an ice skating rink, arcade, miniature golf, Deep Sea Adventure with a sea lion show, bumper boats and full size boat which is a replica of Columbus’s Santa Maria. People were actually getting married on the boat. The best was the World Waterpark – a huge wave pool with beach areas and water slides. Yes folks in bathing suits were lounging on beach chairs on the tan concrete beach and then riding the surf on inner tubes. I wouldn’t believe it if I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes.
We had dinner in the restaurant zone and then headed to Home Depot and back to the campground. Ziggy was ecstatic to see us and we settled in for a relaxing night before we pack up and move in the morning.
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