Edmonton, ...Canada??

Gustavo on the beach?! ... Look closer ... Gustavo on a water park in November in Canada? ... Wait a sec ... Wasn't Canada the coldest place on Earth? (or kind of!) Can this really be happening? Is this some type of Photoshop joke?... A miracle?

I am not kidding! This is a huge swimming pool in Edmonton, Canada (just a 3-hour drive north of Calgary) and it is November and the temperature is a "warm" -7º Celsius... (You read well: minus 7 degrees.) ... ? ? ? ? ....

You guessed it! This is a huge indoor Waterpark where the temperature is always 25 ºC (let it freeze and snow outside!) In fact this park, being the largest indoor water park in North America is just a tiny little piece of one of the world's largest malls: The West Edmonton Mall, which of course has some astonishing figures likes more than 800 shops, 23000 employees, parking space for more than 20000 vehicles, 3 movie theaters, 1 hotel, 1 ice rink, 1 water park and more...

... an Amusement Park too! You see, I don't specially enjoy going shopping to the mall (in fact I quite hate it!)... but what I did like about this one was riding the slides in the Water Park and the exciting rides in the "dry" Galaxyland Amusement Park... look at this World Guiness Records rollercoaster (I loved it!). It is the world's largest indoor triple loop roller coaster! (Galaxyland is the largest indoor amusement park in the world too...)

Yes... everything at West Edmonton Mall is the largest something indoors... even this exact replica of the Santa Maria ship sailed by Christopher Columbus is in the Mall too! (indoors of course) :-o

So going back to our World Waterpark... we certainly had a great time riding the slides, splashing in the big wavepool, relaxing in the hot tubs, having a "Pina" Colada in the shade of a palm tree at the "Beachview" Bar & Snack (background of this picture)... and even catching tan!

So living is such a cold climate can be annoying, that's for sure (well, I find it kinda exciting, different... a life-time experience sometimes :-s), but it also has its advantages: Water Parks and Amusement Parks are open all year round!! That is soooo "cool"! ;)

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