Edmonton

So Jeff had another 4 day weekend (2nd one since we have been here) and we decided we needed to take advantage of it time. No more sitting around the house and just running errands on the weekend. We went up on Friday morning and stayed through Saturday night. Edmonton is actually the capital of Alberta and it is about 3 hrs north of us. We mostly decided to go there because they have a temple and it has been a while.

It is one of the smaller temples. It is actually in the parking lot of a Stake Center there. It was weird. It was literally like they just took some of the parking lot space. I was remembering the temple in Halifax and that is basically what they did for that one as well. I wonder if that is what the do for all of the 'mini' temples. Some of you may wonder how we went to the temple with Jane. Well we just had to take turns. It is not ideal but I suppose it works.
Edmonton seemed like a really nice city. It was really green and pretty. Which actually surprised me since Jeff said that people he worked with complained about Edmonton. Saying that they didn't like it an such. You can see that it looks pretty nice.

Well the one thing that Edmonton is known for is the West Edmonton Mall . It was the largest mall in the world for a while, then in North America but now just in Canada. It is quite the place. Rollercoaster, a water park, ice skating rink, and lots of shopping and food. Here are some pics I took of the place.

You don't realize how loud amusement parks really are until they are indoors. Jane didn't like all the noise very much and started to cry.

You can't tell very well but this is a replica of an old ship. It is in an area that has water that they are 'sea life'. It is mostly a little show they do with sea lions every couple of hours.

This is the ship behind Jeff and Jane. She is not looking too happy but was good during our visit. I didn't get a pic of the water park. It was a large wave pool and like 4 or so water slides. It was fun to see and we did end up buying some things at H & M (mostly for Jane). We didn't ride any rides or anything and realized that we just really aren't mall people. So we left after a couple of hours.
We stayed in a hotel downtown. We actually stayed on the 13th floor. Mostly buildings don't even have a 13th floor so it was kind of weird. It had a cool view but Jeff was freaked about getting too close to the windows. He had a sudden phobia of balconies and such since we had Jane :) So besides this we just walked around downtown some and had some good food.  Here are some other pics I took.

Jane loves putting her mouth on skin and blowing. It is really funny. Here she is sucking on my chin. Sadly, there are no funny videos of Jane this weekend. She is not on her A game :)