This campground is full of mosquitoes!!! They are coming inside the RV and biting us! But we did overrun the water in the bottom of the RV and that may have attracted them.
9:51 AM and we are ON THE ROAD AGAIN!!! We left Valley view to travel to Edmonton, Alberta Province; which is Canada's heartland where they grow wheat, produce oil and raise beef. It is called one of the Prairie Provinces which is a misnomer because there is lots of sparsely populated land here with lakes, rivers and forests. Not at all like the prairies in the US. This is the bedrock core of North America and is made of precambian rock which is one of the oldest in the world. Wheat is still king here and there are lots of grain silos. They produce other crops and livestock. I drove for 2 hours in this section because the roads are fairly empty and the towns are far apart.
We stayed at the Glowing Embers RV Park which has 273 full service sites, RV parts and services on site, a lounge, restaurant, banquet hall and a community garden with growing vegetables- ready to harvest. Pick a few, weed a few!!! We have never seen a RV place like this one! This is top class!!! They have a full house and we were just able to squeeze in with a reservation. I have never seen so many RVs in one place before. They even had another lot for storage of RVs and boats. Unreal!
We drove down the the West Edmonton Mall, the world's largest shopping mall. It has over 800 stores; 9 theme parks; the world's largest indoor water park with a 27.5 million gallon wave pool with 17 water slides; the world's largest indoor amusement park with 29 rides and 4 roller coasters; the world's largest deep sea adventure lake with an exact replica of Christopher Columbus' flagship, the Santa Maria, and a fleet of submarines, bumper boat derbies; Sea Life Caverns with an underground aquarium with 100 species of fish, sharks, sea turtles, penguins, reptiles and amphibians; Sea Lions Rock with sea lions from California giving 2 shows daily; a glow in the dark mini golf course; an 18 hole mini golf course complete with sand traps and water hazards; the Ice Palace with figure skating and hockey games and rec room for rent; IMAX 30 theatres; 100 restaurants, 2 hotels ; 4 themed streets: Bourbon with a New Orleans flavor, Chinatown with an actual very busy Far East Marketplace with all kinds of Asian foods represented for purchase, as if you were really in that country; an Europa block with the art and architecture reflecting the old European cities complete with boutiques and specialties stores; and WEM Main Street with your usual mall selection of stores plus some others. This huge indoor mall covers 48 square city blocks on 4 levels!!!! The people of Edmonton can go to a tropical setting and swim in the middle of January. There is everything imaginable found here to do. We know what they do now when the sun is barely seen in the winter months!
We went shopping in the 2 Dollar stores we found there, and were able to pick up some needed things for the RV, like head nets to stop mosquitoes, a set of small screwdrivers, a laundry bag and flashlights. Daddy went into the Casino, but wasn't impressed. It's hard to find craps up here in Alaska and Canada. We also went to the IMAX movies and saw Grown Ups. It was funny and it felt like I was back in the RV with only the boys again with all of the noises they make. Their theatres are more modern than ours: when you purchase tickets at one of the kiosks inside the theatre you can also preorder your popcorn, candy and drinks. When you get into the lobby, it is ready for you. The seats were extremely comfortable and the sound system was awesome. Everything was the newest state of the art. Even the popcorn tasted so much better. And Daddy didn't load it down with salt!!! Great!!!!!
We stayed at the mall until it closed and then went to a new Walmart. It must be the newest thing around here, because I've never seen a Walmart this crowded unless it's Christmas
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