Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Ride at Edmonton Mall Complex
What a View of the Wilds!!

The Alberta Legislature Building



World's Largest Pysanka (Easter Egg)
More from the Landvaters!!!

Stop #5 July 18-20
While driving on Sunday, we saw a den of coyotes, along the roadway, in all we saw about 8. We had
stopped in Vegreville, Alberta, to see the World's Largest Pysanka, (Easter Egg), it measures 25.7 feet
long, 18 feet wide, and stands 31 feet high, and turns in the wind like a weathervane. While there, we
had visited the visitor center and the girl behind the counter told us about the Train Station, which was
converted into a restaurant. There was 5 trailers that had gone there for lunch, they had served,
Ukrainain food, which had 5 perogies, 3 crapes filled with cottage cheese and a cabbage roll, which all
had a sauce of dill poured over them, wasn't bad. Our waitress gave us a tour of the station, while our
food was being prepared, they had a banquet room, and an upstairs apartment which was very nicely
done by the owner, which was an interior decorator. While driving to our next campground, we saw quite
a few fields again filled with canola flowers. On Monday, we had a tour planned for different places, but only did some of them because of rain.
We took a bus tour through Edmonton, Alberta, stopped at Alberta Legislature, Royal Alberta Museum,
which was a self tour, got to eat lunch at the cafe, and then off to the West Edmonton Mall. The Mall has
800 shops, 100 eating establishments, on 2 floors with them streets, amusement park, waterpark, putt 'n'
glow, 18 hole mini golf, ice palace, casino and much more. Mall covering 45 city blocks- that's equivalent
to 115 football fields. In the evening alot of us sat along the Saskatchwan River and watched huge
beavers and the deer across the road from our campground. On Tuesday, was a free day, we had got the oil changed in the truck and then back to the Mall, had a
drivers meeting in evening.

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