Trip to Edmonton

So the little family Joli-Shaw went on a weekend trip to Edmonton this past weekend. Basically to beat the winter blahs, the ever annoying doctors appointments and basically shake off the everyday hum drums. We went with friends of ours John and Shan, and had a blast. The boys were scheduled for a dyno on thier cars on Friday, but due to some late parts and not being able to tune his car properly Kelly had to fore go his appointment. They still had fun playing with Johns and he got some good numbers (dont ask me what that means cuz I dont know). Shan and I got in some AWESOME shopping. Friday we hit Roots Outlet, Old Navy, Payless shoes,Tommy Hilfiger and IKEA and we got our new bookshelves for the diningroom and our new coffee table, along with new DVD shelves for the basement and a multitude of other household goodies including a live orchid (which i'd been searching for everywhere at a decent price). Friday night Dinner was at Montana's, and after a very long wait we had a delicious dinner, even though John was dissapointed there was no talking Moose head.

Saturday took us girls to West Edmonton Mall and the boys went to the Powerama show at the AgriCom. Kelly said there were rooms and rooms of show cars and one whole level was a swap meet with all kinds of car goodies for sale.

Shan and I found some great deals in WestEd too, besides all the stuff we bought for our men, we were able to find some new clothes for ourselves and I even went up to the T&T oriental food market to find some Kim Chi for my sister and myself. Kelly calls it brains in a bottle but it really good with rice and soya sauce.
Saturday's dinner was at the renovated Cheesecake Cafe (it burnt down a few years ago), and it was declicious although I had to take my dessert to go as I was stuffed! My cheesecake ended up being forgotten in the hotels fridge though, I blame Kelly...

Sunday took us to Toys R Us before we headed home. It had snowed a great deal on Saturday night in a unexpected spring storm. Travelling home was interesting after we passed an accident on Whitemud Drive. John and Shan had only thier summer tires on their car so we stayed close to them along the way. I was pretty glad that Kelly didnt have the Trans Am though.

All in all we made it home safe and it was a fun break from reality for the weekend. Now to put together our furniture and let our debit cards rest. Our cats our sure glad to see us home too...sometimes it takes going away for the weekend to realize how good home really is.