As you would appreciate, we lived in Edmonton for a year, so our plan was not to set out to see all the sights but more about reconnecting with friends. It has already been a great few days and it has been really exciting just getting about and seeing the things that are so familiar to us.
July had been an unusually wet month so all the gardens and parks are looking very healthy and green. We have, been on quite a few walks, both of us have done circuits at the gym, and I have even been out and about on a bike. It has helped that most of the time it has been sunny, but not too hot and humid.
Jim and Sheila (friends from the gym, 2004) have a very nice house in a picturesque suburb near where we lived, and have kindly been taking us around as we continue to reconnect. Today (Saturday) the gym group had a lunch get-together here so it was a great opportunity for us to see many of the people we were friends with here in 2004.
Last Thursday morning we went to West Edmonton Mall to meet up with Dorothy (Exchange Teacher, 2002) who had driven up from Pincher Creek especially to see us (about 500km). We sat for lunch then coffee etc until well into the afternoon. Tomorrow we are out to lunch with Doris (neighbour 2004), so we are gradually reconnecting.
Pictures are of us with Jim and Sheila outside their house, across the River Valley, and the wave pool inside West Edmonton Mall.
To be continued.....
