Road trip!
A good portion of last week and the weekend was spent driving with Archie. Driving to: Calgary, and Edmonton for vacation and a bit of business. Here are some bullet points about the trip.
- We got lost going there and ended up in Osoyoos, BC. An event like this only happens when you attempt to drive from your house to a hotel in Calgary with nothing but hand written directions taken from Google maps.
- Hotels.ca should do a user interface analysis on their online booking form.
- Calgary is growing. Good coffee shops, good shopping, good people but the Dennys on Calgary trail gave me a stomach ache (and their water tastes kinda weird). Note: Stomach ache’s during a 3 hour drive to Edmonton will only expedite your trip to 1 hour 45 minutes. Thanks Sarah.
- Red lobster + Marble slab ice cream + Starbucks coffee = I’m not exactly sure what but whatever it is, it isn’t good.
- West Edmonton Mall is still huge and pretty much the same except they’ve replaced the dolphins with seals.
- Kingsway Mall is g.h.e.t.t.o. Arch and I spent 5 minutes inside and decided that the 20 minute drive to West Edmonton Mall was well worth it. During the 5 minutes inside, we counted at least 15 kids who could be mistaken for prostitutes (both boys and girls).
- People look at you weird when you buy 20 bottles of Saw Mill steak sauce.
- You can be certain that a 12 hour drive back home will suck, when you’re already bargaining/begging/threatening to take the plane on the first half hour of the drive.
- We did eventually get home safely.
Pictures will be up soon.
9:39 am
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i have no idea how you could possibly get lost going to calgary. you get on the highway going east and don’t get off. for any reason. =)
silly ritchie!
20 bottles? someone preparing for a famine? :p
Lost… keke keke keke. I won’t get lost but some bird will probably poo on my car. I’m glad you guys had a good time.
dood, calgary trail = edmonton, edmonton trail = calgary
whoever DJ is, he wants you to get lost…really lost. Edmonton’s pretty smart; Calgary Trail ACTUALLY LEADS to Calgary. Calgary doesn’t know any better cuz their so-called “Edmonton Trail” DOES NOT lead to Edmonton. So yes…bring a map next time
or bring your GPS!
Actually, C, the point is Denny’s on Calgary Trail wouldn’t be in Calgary. But yes, Edmonton is smarter.