It was funny not sleeping on a train last night as none of
the familiar sounds and shakes were present yet we both had great sleeps and so
were up relatively early. The mall was on our agenda today and we’d set aside
the entire day for this as the mall is 5th largest in the world. The
place has over 800 shops and so easily dwarfs the likes of the UK’s Trafford
Centre with its mere 280 or so.
We made the half hour walk in the heat of the Edmonton sun
until we reached one of the west side entrances to the mall. In we went and
quickly made note of our location in the likely event that we’d get lost. We
had heard a story of someone who’d lost their car here and it was a week before
they found it again – we weren’t taking any chances and soon got our hands on a
map of the place. Imagine our shock as we opened up the guide and the first
page we hit was two separate maps for the mall’s theme park and waterpark! The
place is basically a long strip of shops covering two floors and with little
offshoots of shops sprouting out from the main stem of the mall. We decided to
cover it all and so set off conquering the ground floor.
We were both stunned when, within 45 minutes, we’d reached
the far end of the mall. During this time we’d even wandered into the entrance
of the theme park, just to have a look, and stopped for a few moments by the
ship and ice-rink. We had even managed to stop off and cure Corrie’s persisting
cravings for Blizzard ice-creams at a Dairy Queen. We then set about doing the
upper floor and this too was a much shorter journey than we’d originally
expected, even with a stop off to take in the waterpark through the huge glass
windows overlooking it. We ended up extending our time here by perusing a
selection of shops, constantly fighting the urges to impulse buy!
We judged that this pace didn’t seem much bigger than the
like of the big shopping centres back home in terms of walking from end to end.
It’s obviously the likes of: the theme park, waterpark, shooting range, huge
cinema etc that rapidly gobbles up space to make this place huge. Well there’s
only so much time you can spend at a shopping centre without actually buying
anything and so we eventually decided to make a move and walk back to the
hotel.
More chilling out back at the hotel; catching up on more of
the Olympics and trying to make note of a few more points of interest for our
upcoming road trip.
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