Edmonton - Alberta

Travel from Saskatoon to Edmonton was by plane, yep another one of those small planes. We caught a taxi to our hotel, it was taking so long I started to get a bit concerned that we were heading in the wrong direction, alas the driver knew best and we arrived at our hotel safe and sound.

The name of the hotel is Fantasyland and all I can say is the name definitely suits. Each floor has a different theme, ours was horse stables. This is a photo of Greg standing outside our "stable"

Other themes  included Roman Empire, Iceland and Hollywood to name a few.  The hotel was connected to a shopping centre that was built on land the size of 48 blocks, hard to imagine isn't it.

There is only 2 levels, one day we did the upper level and it took 3 hours, that was just walking around, we only went int maybe 2 shops and that took 15 mins at the most.

The shopping centre also has the Santa Maria which is a replica of Christopher Columbus flagship of 1492, a mini golf course, Sealife Caverns, an amusement park, a nice skating ring and a gigantic water park that has a wave pool, water slides and a flying fox that crosses the pool. You goto this place and never go outside.

We went through the ghost tunnel, to me it was more like the house of horrors, I nearly had a coronary when one of the monsters jumped out at me.

Oh, there is also an area for a dinner show. We went and saw the Ed Sullivan shoe. It included Beatles, Rolling Stones, Hermans Hermits, Gerry and the Pacemakers, LuLu and Dusty Springfield . It was a good show and the food was surprisingly good considering it was a "mass production".

Edmonton is a very nice city . The population is about 1.2 million.