May 14 in Edmonton

Was woken up at 630 am again by the sun. Urgh. Need to find ways to shut the blinds tightly so that I won't be unduly woken up by the sunshine! Also attempted to open the window of the room and stick my body out so that I can take a nicer picture. In the process of doing so, the window decided to slip from its position and came sliding down on my back. Haha.


Picture of the room view. Not very interesting cos no flowers yet. Am hoping to catch the blooming flowers.

Anyways, today was rather interesting. We took a walk around campus from 9 am onwards and headed towards Butterdome (the uni sports and recreation centre). Did not take the exterior of the buiding because it is bright yellow and ugly.
Indoor track.

Then we walked over to Horowitz Theatre and found that the Alberta dance Festival is on! So we went into the theatre and sat there to admire the pretty little girls and watch solo jazz performances of 12 year old girls. Some were very good, but some had really bad technique. Bad turn-outs, "blunt" pointes, and some had bad posture to begin with. But otherwise, is an interesting show. Apparently it is going to go on for the next few days, so I'm hoping to catch the ballet ones. After the show, we walked around a bit more then it was almost 11 am. And since we were just right outside St Joseph's College (our hostel), we decided to just go into the chapel and attend the Sunday Mass. Felt very good to be back in the CHIJ-like environment. Hymns, liturgies, communions etc. Then we took a long walk (about 13 blocks, around 6 km) to Whyte Avenue, where the happening shops were. Had Greek pita for lunch and then we decided to head to the largest mall in the world - West Edmonton Mall.

Real flamingoes in the mall.
Bourbon Street-themed area.
A humongous water park in the mall itself! With fake wave pool and beach.
Sea lion shows at 2pm and 4pm. They even have an underwater world thing nearby where you can see sharks.

By 5+pm, we were both veryvery tired. I almost felt like falling asleep while walking. The mall was HUGE. Besides the water park, sea lion/flamingo enclosure, there's also a roller coaster/fun ride park, casino, IMAX theatre, an ice skating rink and plenty of stores and food chains. That's where we see more Asians. Heh.

After getting back from West Edmonton Mall, we head to Safeway to get dinner (yucky frozen food, need help on making food using the microwave only!!). Took a short rest before we head outside to sit in the sun and absorb all the lovely sunshine and cool air (today's weather was FABULOUS). Then Prof Cox came again to pick us up to her son's house to watch a (ice) hockey game. It was very interesting. Things happen so fast and they just literally crash into each other. Did not stay till the end though, cos we decided to come back early to get some ironing done and have a rest before the big day tomorrow.

So that's about it! We found some detergent lying around in the laundry room, so we decided not to get any, since the smallest portion they sell was 1.89L. Like, 20+ washes! We are not going to wash our clothes THAT often! Heh.

So, I will have to go to bed now. Take care.