Rimbey and Edmonton, Alberta

After a busy day in Jasper National Park we made it to Rimbey Alberta in the evening to visit our friend Will Ogden who was currently working in the area.

While Will was at work we stayed in his spare room for the night and caught up on some blogging. In the morning we got the grand tour of Rimbey which consisted of a quick walk around town, lunch at the Grand Motel and a trip to the park. Later in the afternoon we packed up the car and headed and hour and a half North to Edmonton to catch my old friend Becca Kennedy after her matinee performance in Guys and Dolls.

After meeting up with Becca we walked around Edmonton checking out the views as we crossed the river. Than it was into the downtown core where there was plenty of interesting shops and restaurants. We settled on going to one called The Next Act. Great food and awesome beers. I had a baked mac n cheese with bacon and jalapeno peppers. Amy had the Brisket donair.
Leaving the pub we walked around the area going by Becca's work and stopping into a really neat book store. Than it was back to her apartment to settle down for the night

Edmonton!

Becca and Amy

Food and friends

Becca worked the next day so we set about some plans to entertain ourselves. Needing some supplies before we headed up north we drove to the West Edmonton mall to get a pair of hiking shoes, some bear pepper spray and some more tent pegs (I also bought a new board game called boss monster). The size of that mall is ridiculous i'm glad I didn't get lost inside of it.
After the mall we went to a craft brewery called alley kat brewery company. Had some really good beers my favorite was the aprikat beer. We tried to go to two more brewery's seeing as how they were not that far away but one moved out of town and the other was closed to the public.
We headed back to Becca's apartment and than went to Mike's (Becca's boyfriend) apartment where we proceeded to eat quesadillas, have a few drinks and play cards against humanity.

We headed back to the West Edmonton Mall the next day to meet my cousin Anthony and his daughter Brooklyn (pardon my spelling if that is not the right way). He drove in from Wainwright to visit. We ate a a place called Earls and than explored around the mall. Getting to see the sea lions, playing on the pirate ship and driving the little boats. It was really nice to get to visit with them and to hang out for a bit.

Were on a boat!

We headed back to Mike's place afterwards to hang out there for a bit where we watched a movie called "the to do list". Saying goodbye shortly after that we packed up the car and drove back to Rimbey where we shall sleep and start out the next day resuming our travels.