Bestie Edmonton road trip 2017 has begun!!! Jerilee was at my door shortly after 7:00am with coffee. I kissed my husband and off we went. It was a grey day of travel, and also great. We chatted and caught up like it had been years, but to be fair its been two whole weeks! Haha! That’s a long time for us 🙂 I’d say the first leg of the trip was the longest, and it was probably due to the fact that we were driving to Radisson! It felt so strange to be driving in that direction after so long. We reminisced about how often she would make the trek out to our place for a day of visiting or an evening of supper and the Bachelor. I always appreciated that she was willing to drive out, but I do NOT miss that setting at all. We joked about driving into town and creepily driving past our old house, and then we promptly kept driving.
After a quick stop in Lloydminster, we were in Alberta and well on our way! We made it to the mall right around lunch, but not before we missed a turn and ended up a weird industrial area of Edmonton. Actually, come to think of it, we ended up in Strathcona. It was entertaining at least. But we were both SO hungry! Subway satisfied our hunger, and we were good to go!
Five. Hours. Of shopping. Solid. Jerilee and I usually mosey through the mall, but today, we were weirdly motivated and focused. We didn’t stop for Starbucks once, we didn’t get a soft pretzel, nothing. We just booked it and SHOPPED. It was pretty great, actually. Jerilee and I did really well! We didn’t get too terribly much, but we are both totally happy with all of our purchases. And guys, I got some REALLY fun makeup! I’ll show you more about it when I’m home 😉 Very exciting!
We hit the Spaghetti Factory for supper, and honestly, we had easily the crappiest experience either of us have ever had there :/ We tried to speak to our server about it and she was completely defensive and wouldn’t give an inch. It was weird and off-putting. There have been talks of calling a manager, but at this point, what would they do? We don’t haver a Spaghetti Factory, so some future coupon/discount wouldn’t benefit it. And we knew our server was new. But there were some silly issues that would have been easily cleared up. Not good, guys. Not good. So I’ll admit, Jerilee and I were grumpy. Our food wasn’t even yummy.
We hit one or two more places in the mall and then drove to our hotel. At least that was the goal. Don’t you love when you haul everything into the lobby of the hotel that isn’t the one you made a reservation at? Lol! That was TOTALLY my fault, but we had a laugh and backtracked to our actual hotel. Felt pretty silly 😉 But we did make it! We’re here now. The beds are comfy, the room is close to the pool/hot tub, and there is the promise of continental breakfast tomorrow. Things are looking good!!
Outlets tomorrow!!! Have a great weekend, friends! <3