There are certain things in life that you should should save for a rainy day.  Doing puzzles, binge watching Netflix and sorting through old clothing are examples of some of these things.  Going to the West Edmonton Mall is also one of these things.  We have always said that one day we would go and check it out and, as luck would have it, it has been raining for two days!

We went to visit our friend, Linda for a coffee and a snack in the morning.  She suggested that because the weather was miserable we should go and check out the mall.  So we parked Toothless in the visitor parking area at Linda's townhouse complex and loaded ourselves in her vehicle to go and visit the mall.  Neither one of us are very big shoppers but the mall is more than just shopping.  Theres's a big water world in the middle of the mall complete with a pirate ship and sea lions, there's an amusement park with cotton candy, rides and games and there's even a go-kart race track!  We picked up a few things that were on our list of things to pick up if we saw them, took some photos and did a little people watching in the amusement park before heading back home again. 

We were gone for about two hours.  We went in to Linda's house for our final goodbyes and to say goodbye to little Dori (one of our puppies from Mia's litter) and went to leave.  We heard a large diesel engine while we were in the house and when I stepped out the door I was met by a big yellow Toothless look-alike in a tow truck form parked in front of Toothless while the driver went about hooking Toothless up to tow him away!  We saw the sign that read "8 hours maximum" so we knew that wasn't the issue.  It seems that we missed the sign at the entrance of the visitor parking that mentioned "No vehicles over 3/4 ton".  Toothless, on a good day, is well over 3/4 ton.  I ran out to the driver and said "that's my truck, do you want me to move it?"  He was quite relieved and said, "oh thank goodness, I didn't want to have to tow this thing!"  He explained that because of the air parking brake he would not have had the proper equipment to tow it (so that leads me to think that had we not stepped out when we did, things could have gotten rather expensive with a tow bill AND whatever damage may have been done if he had pulled away with Toothless behind).  Thank goodness for good timing, we stepped out and saved it...on a rainy day!