OMG!  What can I say about the West Edmonton Mall……huuuuuuge, massive, ginormous, vast, simply big!  In the six hours we were there we covered about a tenth – it was a pretty good tenth too.

It started off with a water massage for Granny and finished off with snake handling in the sea life caverns.  In fact, out of the time we were there we only shopped for half an hour – thousand of shops and we managed to visit only one!  In the middle we managed to see the sea lion show, have some lunch, put the baby down for a lunchtime sleep and play 18 rounds of mini golf, which with his handicap, Jack won.  Granny once again showed some sporting prowess managing a HOLE IN ONE!!

You’ll never guess what we had for tea………oh yes, it’s BBQ and beer night again.  It’s such a hard life.

Science Museum tomorrow, will let you know how it goes.  I’m pretty certain that like everything else on this trip it will be awesome.

It appears that the boys are over their jet lag – we had a 6:20 and a 7:10 this morning, phew.  On the downside, that probably also means no more sunrises.

After a day and night of wet weather we awoke to a beautiful morning.  Everything got packed up and we were off to our next leg of the journey – Rainbow Valley Campground, Edmonton.  It wasn’t far and ninety minutes later we were pulling into the Gateway, a tourist information stop at the south of Edmonton. Maps and leaflets in hand we rejoined the highway to head to Fort Edmonton Park, a historical ‘theme park’.  Granpops wasn’t too keen on the six lane highway (that’s six lanes in each direction) but he made it.

Fort Edmonton park was fantastic, we’d thoroughly recommend it.  It was all outdoors and as well as they original trading post fort, they had replicated main streets from here different eras in history – 1805, 1885 and 1920 plus a Midway carnival/fair.  The fort was fascinating, there was so much to learn from the living history guides.  Granpops got chatting with the Forts carpenter, who also happened to be the shipwright……five hours later and we were able to get on our way! Granny got chatting with the First Nation guide who was shelling peas and managed to blag us a few pods.  I think Granny wins on the chatting stakes today! Highlights were the ride on the steam train, Jack getting locked in Jail and a random carnival wedding between the sword swallower, the half man half woman and the ginger haired lady – you had to be there!

The campsite’s in a great location and our pitch is right by the play park.  BBQ and beer again for tea – it’s a hard life!