For our final day in Edmonton, we slept in a bit more that the morning before and got our butts in gear. By that, I mean we still sat around for about an hour before getting up. But when we finally did, it was a quick job to get our things to together and organized. We went down to the main floor and grabbed some breakfast. Yay for a hotel that buys muffins from Costco! After that, we packed up our remaining stuff and headed to the elusive outlet mall from the day before.
Regardless of the fact that we got to the mall 45 minutes before the stores opened, the traffic conductors were in place and aggressively waving us where they wanted us. They were so gung ho about it that they directed us right back out of the parking lot and onto the street. No joke. Sooooo we made our way back in and finally found a way to actually enter the parking part of the parking lot. Gong show.
We waited our 45 minutes out and the fun finally began!! I’ve got to say, we thought there would be a bit more to it :/ It wasn’t as impressive of a shopping centre as I had hoped. It claimed to be an outlet mall, but many of the stores were not outlets at all, but exactly the same as that store found anywhere else. We were the most excited for the outlet version of Old Navy, hoping for a big mess of old-ish clothes from other, overstocked locations. Nope. It was an average location, well stocked with all the current items at the exact same prices and sales that we had seen them at in West Edmonton Mall two days before. So that was a bust. What makes an outlet an outlet anyway??
Regardless, I did get a few little things from the new mall, but again, I’ll show you a haul sometime this week. It won’t be tomorrow, because that’ll be another series post. (31 weeks, guys!!!!) We left the outlet mall content with our shopping experience and our weekend of purchases, and decided it was time to start the journey home, which we did after a quick lunch at a nearby Subway.
The drive home was far quieter than the drive there, haha! We were so tired! But a very good, content tired after a weekend of fun. I’m SO glad we went! Now that Edmonton is wrapped up, that is one more thing crossed off of my imaginary list of things to look forward to before the baby comes! Eek!
Its so good to be home!