Off to WEM

Sunday morning early. we loaded up the Kia and the 5 of us headed North to Edmonton. Destination West Edmonton Mall, To shop til we drop, and the girls were headed to the water park day one. Day 2 they were shopping til they dropped. Our hotel was the Delta Downtown. I highly recommend it if anyone is heading North. It was easy access to WEM, reasonably priced and very, very nice. Also a great perk, was it is located inside another mall, City Center Mall. Comparable to Market Mall. At night we ventured to a lounge and never had to walk outside. The girls ran to the movie theater to buy popcorn, again inside the mall. It was great!


Some interesting knife holders we saw at a store called Le Gnome

Us and thousands of other people were at the mall this weekend.

The Sea Lion show


Big ship

Katie questioning the fact that Dean wore the competition's T-shirt to Starbucks! ( Cafe du Monde

Maddie and Martina are in there somewhere

Supper at Moxies

The mall is closed. It empties out and we can actually see each other now.

Leaving the mall......
Here are some "wiki-facts" from the always suspect Wikipedia. These ones seem accurate but there is some debate going on to the number of stores. The mall says 800 but some people are strenuously arguing it is only 600. Someday when I have time I will go to the website and manually count them and report back. Anyway, here are the Wiki-facts:

West Edmonton Mall covers a gross area of about 570,000 square meters and cost 1.2 billion to build. There are over 800 stores and services and parking for more than 20,000 vehicles. More than 23,000 people are employed at the property. The mall receives 28.2 million visitors per year and between 60,000 and 150,000 shoppers daily depending on the day and season. The mall is currently valued at C$926 million.