Day 5+6

Day 5 was a trip to Edmonton, a town that near Calgary, the cheif twon of Alberta. I say "near" but it's a 3 hours trip on the high way, my bf have to drove at 130-140 kmh so that we can reach the big big West Edmonton Mall. As its solgan said "the biggest indoor shopping mall on earth", I do believe it is. There is a amusement park, a swimming park with artifical sea wave and a mini theater for the sea lion in the mall, puls of course hundreds of shops inside.



We brought a sand bottle from "Sand man" (that is the name on the name card!). Originally we only want a bottle that have our names on it with no pictures on the back, as it would out of our buget. But the artist finally gave us a very beautiful bottle with a sand picture on the back and our names. He siad it is the art that we should pay attention to and he do that to show his art. We pay him the original price we agree on: only with the names. What a nice man he is!! I recommend everyone to buy a sand bottle from him, to keep his art alife. (And please pay him what he should deserve.)

My bf was so tired on the way back. He had a cup of coffee and still feel slepy and so he slept in the car for a while at Red Deer, a town in the middle of Edmonton and Calgary. We finally arrived Calgary at 10:30. There was not much restature still working so we had dinner at the Mc Donal. There were only 4 staff in the whole shop but serving quite a lot of people. While we were having the food, one of the staff there suddently became very angry about another staff and he shouted, "I QUITE!" at the manager. The manager tried to presude him not to leave for a while. I do not know the final result, as we had finished the meal and have to leave. People said it is very hard to hire people to work in Calgary now, as there are too many jobs to choose: Calgary's economy has been boosting over the past 1 to 2 years, as there are oil near them.

The next day was also a trip in town. As the finally day in Calgary, we had dinner with bf's old friend at a chinese restauture and had tea with another friend at "Sky".