Blogs from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, North America - page 8

hello travel world, well, we have eight months until we leave on our adventure over to Europe. the thought of having to wait 235 days until we can pack up our lives into two backpacks and board a plane to Dublin, Ireland makes me sad. I would like to leave yesterday if that's at all possible. such is life. I can't be too much of a downer considering we're going for an entire year and hopefully longer. in the meantime, we've planned Ireland, UK, Scotland & Wales. the rest of Europe will be done sporatically throughout our summer here. I know, we've started this travel blog eight months too early, but i'm getting antsy. besides, I can read about all the places I want to go to on this website. and if we go on any ... read more

Thursday morning, still with Ian’s thoughts in my head, I wrote it down and tried to crash out. In the morning, I phoned my father-in-law. I posed Ian’s theory to him. Explained what was going on. He spoke for over an hour with me. He gave me his opinion on Ian’s theory and gave sound advice on dealing with salespeople at dealerships. Thanking him I contact Peace River, only to learn that my credit application efforts last night failed because someone this vary morning had purchased the Trail Team Edition. A sigh of relief fell over me. Another FJ gone, they were falling out everywhere. We ended up at Mayfield Toyota, Thursday night to test-drive a 2006 Tacoma 4x4 and a red 2008 FJ. Upon arrival we were given keys to the Tacoma. Taking off out ... read more

So I leave the day after tomorrow. This time skipping the UK all together and flying right into Paris. Amelie references will be made. So will lots more typos. And family friendly editing. Things that will not happen: -stolen wallets -stolen cameras -crazy Irish women who attack me on planes Things that will happen again: -International drinking with Jessi -Really cheesy things said by me in this blog -CB (that is non-family friendly reference for any of my friends who feel like reading into that) I leave the day after tomorrow and all I've packed is socks. Here we go friends... Europe Round Two. I'm calling it Thirty Days For Thirty... That's years... in case you forgot. Just like last time, I promise not to take the time to read entries over... ... read more

After the quaint little village of Jasper, it was off to Edmonton and North America's largest mall, over 800 stores with the largest indoor amusement park and the largest indoor waterpark with many tube slides. There are 3 new slides this summer and they feature an electronic launch system. Sliders step into a glass capsule and the floor drops from beneath them, sending them on their journey. Cyclone, the first waterslide of its kind in Canada offers both the unexpected drop plus a vertical loop. After the floor releases from beneath them, a slider plummets 17 meters straight down, as fast as 60 km/h, before arching upward into a near-vertical loop and blazing out into a splashdown lane. The two Sky Screamer Extreme slides both have the electronic launch system, but one of the slides is ... read more

It seems like it was a long time coming, but when we crossed the border into Alberta today, boy did it feel good. It was a great year in Quebec, but by this point we were all very excited to be home. Claude has been saying that he could smell home since we crossed into the prairies and today we finally made it home! It is funny but when you have been gone so long, it really seemed great to catch the first glimpse of Edmonton as we approached. We had left last year with our last dinner being with family at the Asian Village on the west end. Our favorite Indian restaurant. Claude had been craving their food since we left so we detoured on our way through Edmonton to have dinner there today before ... read more