West Edmonton Mall

This past weekend we loaded up our new to us van with the kids and Grandma Puzey and we headed to Edmonton!! We have made a rule that there is no eating in our van and for the most part that rule was very well followed through!!! 

We made our first stop in Vulcan where Armin and I had to do a short speech session! Jared washed the van and filled it with fuel while we did this!!!

Our second stop was in Calgary to have lunch with Grandpa Glen!!! We ate yummy burgers at South Street Burger!! It was great to see my dad and catch up!! Armin had been asking when we were going to see Ampa Wen again!! The timing was perfect!!!

Our third stop was our hotel!!! Our navigation system on our van worked perfectly and took us right to the entrance doors!!!  Oh, we did have one more stop before our hotel!!! The side of the road for Calum to pee!!!

After getting settled in we headed over to West Edmonton Mall to look around and have supper!!

Saturday we woke up with pure excitement as we got ready to go to the water slides!!!! We grabbed a quick breakfast at the hotel and were promptly at the waterpark by 10!!! We rode the slides and splashed in the waves for 9 hours!!!!  Armin especially liked the hot tub!!!! Me too!!!  Jared, Emry and Calum decided to do the zip line across the pool so they did that after we changed out of our suits!  They all got their harnesses on and hooked into the zip line but Calum just couldn't let his harness take his weight, he was too scared!! So they had to unhook him and send him on the long walk back to where the zip line ended!! Poor guy, and it was him who really wanted to do it!  Jared and emry had a blast!!!

It was too long of a wait to eat at the mall so we drove to the nearest Moxies!!!  Back at the hotel we all crashed and slept really good!!  Sunday we travelled home!!! 

It was lots of fun...the kids sure make us laugh!!  Jared gave each of the kids a nickel to throw in the water to make a wish! Armin held his nickel up to his mouth and whispered his wish to it before throwing it into the water!!! Calum took his nickel and said thanks for the money!!! He claims wishes don't come true so he wanted to save his money!! Emry threw hers in and made a wish!! All kids have been raised the same and all three did this fun little ritual differently!!! Fascinating!!!!!

The weekend wasn't nearly long enough but it was a fun and much needed getaway!!!  One minor downfall...our whole trip was planned because we didn't get to use the water park pass I got through airmiles last year because of the weather!!! So we had until November of 2015 to use it, except I ordered the pass in October!!! So we really had until October 22, 2015 to use it!!! Our weekend ended up costing us more than we anticipated but it was still a ton of fun!!!