Vacation, part 3

All you Philly people really need to be here this week. It's lovely! The highs are around 20 celsius (that's 68 degrees fahrenheit) and it's not humid at all. Okay, that's it for the bragging - except to say that I bought some sweaters and a jean jacket (yay! I've been looking for the perfect jean jacket for months, and I found one one - on sale for $15!) and have been wearing them. The cute little skirts have stayed in the suitcase, as have the sandals. I know, I'll pay for my hubris when I get back.

Yesterday I hitched a ride downtown with my sister at 9, so I had a morning of wandering the downtown malls (and I can hear Liz and Jen and Micaela all laughing at me right now - nothing wrong with loving malls) and going to the main library to get baby picture books in spanish for Judy to help her with her Spanish lessons. The main library in Edmonton is so nice and well laid out and miles cleaner than the Philly Central Library. And the checkout is right at the exit, so everyone has to go through it and then the turnstile to get out. Very good design there. Afterwards I met up with an old classmate from library school for lunch, so it was my library day.

Judy and I then met back up and we went down to Whyte Ave, which is like the South Street of Philly, but with less dirt and sex stores and more bars and (polite) homeless people. Both street have some great little shops and Whyte has one of the two indie movie theatres in Edmonton, the Princess.
And then the highlight of the day: birthday pizza! Judy and I have a tradition that we go to Boston Pizza every time I'm in town to have Tropical Chicken Pizza (no pineapples on my half) and wings. It was delicious, but even two extra-strength lactaids were no match for all the cheese and alfredo sauce on the pizza. We've decided to explored other foods for our new traditional dinner.
After dinner we headed to the mall to check out the sales at Bootlegger and La Vie en Rose. I got a sparkly blue zip sweater for the winter for $5. Then we went to Mark's Work Wearhouse to see if Judy could find some cheap sandals, but they were mostly gone by then. We did find adorable hoodies in sherbet orange, so now we match. Good thing we live many many miles apart!
We ended the day watching So You Think You Can Dance and then had a sleepover in Judy's lovely foam bed. On a sad note, Edmonton cable does not get Project Runway at all, so I'll have to wait 'til next week to see the episode from this week. Don't spoil me!!
Today I'm meeting the newly engaged Linda for lunch, hanging out with my mom, and then going for dinner with more friends.