Saturday morning, Mark, Justin, Jessiya and I got up super early to head up to Edmonton. The first part of the day was spent at the Water Park in West Edmonton Mall. I had never been to the waterpark before, so I was super excited. We went on a ton of slides and had fun in the waves... until everyone in the entire park started hating me! (The lifegaurd had to temporarily shut down the slide while bandaging my bleeding ankle, so everyone in line was getting pretty impatient and ticked off with me! And then another lifeguard had to come help, so he shut down his slide too! Oops!!) We stayed in the park until we were so hungry we couldn't take it anymore.
We went out into the mall and grabbed some lunch in the food court. We walked around the mall and went Christmas shopping. Justin and Jessiya were much more successful than Mark and I were. The only thing I bought was a bag full of dropies!! (Oh, and a Beauty and the Beast night light for Robyn... but that wasn't for Christmas, I already gave that to her.) Mark bought a Christmas present for himself, a CD, "Ten Second Epic". If I had known we could buy our own Christmas presents I'd be wearing the coolest Abercrombie & Finch hoodie right now!! HeeHee.
We headed over to our hotel, The Holiday Inn; The Palace. It wasn't as fancy as you'd expect from a hotel with a name like "The Palace"... but it was still really nice. The rooms were big and clean and there were hot tubs and a fitness room that kept Mark and Justin occupied. (No, they weren't working out... they were turning the treadmill up full speed and dropping their shoes onto it, seeing if they could make them hit the wall behind the machine.) The only negative thing about the hotel was the Zellar's Christmas Party that was taking place directly below our room. The music rocked us all, but Jessiya to sleep.... she had to rely on homemade ear plugs made from toilet paper to fall asleep.
What a busy and tiring weekend, but lots of fun!!
