When You Have a Broken Tooth...Go Shopping!

A view of the river from our campground.  Filled to the brim, like all the rivers we have seen so far.

I guess Russ was brushing his teeth a little too energetically because he ended up breaking a rear molar.  A call to our dentist eased our concerns.  Basically, if Russ isn’t showing symptoms (i.e., screaming his brains out from pain), then we can wait until we get home to get the tooth fixed.

So to relax from the strain of that crisis, we spent the day shopping at the Edmonton mall. This is reported to be the largest shopping mall in North America.  I don’t know how many luggage stores, jewelry stores or women’s shoe stores one needs, but apparently this mall has them all.  And a waterpark, amusement park, ice arena, and IMAX theater complex on top of that.  Even watched a sea lion performance. Whew!

Russ could hardly wait!

Imagine a boat inside a mall!!

The pool had a wave maker and was huge.  There was another set of slides on the other side of the pool.

The campground we are staying at is about 20 kilometers southwest of the city, right next to the North Saskatchewan River. A very nice, quiet campground with lots of cottonwood trees.  When we first arrived, it looked like drifting snow all over the park. 

Our stowaway just can't figure out if this is snow - it isn't cold, but it blows around like snow.

Had nice enough weather to cook outside - a typical Scout dutch oven dinner: chicken with rice and apple cobbler.

Apple cobbler - yum!

We had a couple nice warm, sunny days, but the rain is back today.  We head north to Grande Prairie tomorrow – looks like the rainy weather will follow us. Oh well, summer is bound to show up sometime.