saturday. day four: the hooker
burg and i slept in (surprise, surprise). we shouldn't have, because we basically had to rush through everything else we wanted to do that day because of that. but we stayed in bed until we had to take the u-haul back, practically. (did we sleep more when we got back from doing that, burg? i can't remember.) so, yeah, we drove the u-haul back and practically walked all the way back to our hotel (stupid saturday bus schedules).
when we did get up, we caught the bus to westmount and went to the oddysium, formerly known as the edmonton space and science centre. it was...okay. it was a lot more fun when i was a little kid, let me tell you. and for some reason, they keep changing it every time i go there, so i can never really find my way around. they have an imax theatre there as well as a star theatre, but we didn't go to either of them. if we had the time, i would have loved to go to one of the shows (preferably in both theatres). i think the best thing we did there was this one video game thing...it's hard to describe. you enter this area where you appear on a tv screen in front of you. and then things start coming at you on the tv screen and you have to dodge them (i think you have to hit some of them, too). you do this by physically moving around in this area. i guess it's kind of like a virtual reality thing, i guess. i was too tall to work it, so i had to sort of squat down (well isn't that a pretty picture), but i did so well i made the high score. yay! burg didn't do so good. same thing when we did the wheelchair races. burg did really bad on that. okay, i'll stop mocking burg now. >:D
so we decided to meet back up with simon (and his brand new pocket pc!!) and go down whyte avenue for a while. lots of stuff to do there...lots of shops to browse around in. lots of shops to buy stuff in, but i resisted the urge to spend large amounts of money. unfortunately, we couldn't spend a whole lot of time there. we had to meet up with my mom on the south side. and with the lovely saturday bus schedule, it took us forever. guess what. we were late. bet you never saw that coming.
my mom drove up from red deer (only an hour and a half away from edmonton) so we could go to a fun festival called "a taste of edmonton" which is in downtown edmonton and was running at the same time as klondike days (i can't remember if it does). at this festival, a bunch of local restaurants set up stands with a couple things on their regular menu that you can buy with pre-purchased tickets. you don't get a full plate of food, but you get a satisfying taste. some places are really generous and give you a lot, too. it's my mom's favourite festival in edmonton, so we had a fun time there. there's live entertainment, and all that fun stuff. i tried lots of good food. my mom and i didn't have many spare tickets at the end. burg mostly bought desserts, so she did. what a goober. :P
we stayed until that was over. it was getting relatively late at night by this time. burg and i start talking about how a "friend of ours" (you know who you are) has never seen a hooker before. my mom's like "want to drive around until we find one?" and we're like "okay!"
so we walk back to my mom's truck (hehe, she drove her truck up) which was parked in chinatown...and in the parking lot there's a nylon, or something!! so we took a picture of that just in case we couldn't find a hooker. that was our plan b.
only a couple minutes into our search, we drive by dozens of cop cars with their lights on and stuff. there were lots of motorcycles and bikers there, too. we never figured out what was going on, but oh well...bikers getting in trouble with the police. who cares.
we saw several hookers. i mean...it's downtown edmonton on a saturday night. you're bound to find some sooner or later. the first one we saw was getting stopped by a cop, i think. we didn't really want to take a picture of that. the second one was saw was standing on one of the darker, more abandoned street corners. we would have taken her picture but she was on the driver's side and we couldn't really take a picture very easily that way. as we were driving away we saw a limo pick her up though!! sick. and the next one we saw was walking down the street on the passenger's side! yay!! so burg, who's in the back seat, and i take a picture of her as we drive by. it was so embarrassing, and i felt kind of sorry for her. as soon as we took the pictures we instantly hid ourselves, i think. like...we sat back in our seats really far. or at least i did.
my mom drove us back to our hotel and she drove back home.
we decide to watch another movie. (i think we watched it on this night. i can't remember.) burg was in the bathroom, or something (showering?), and i was trying to order the movie. did i mention that our remote control went crazy constantly the entire time i went there? like...it'd start scrolling through other options on the screen when you weren't pressing any buttons. up until then, it didn't actually select anything we didn't want. yeah. "up until then." our perverted, possessed remote control scrolled into the adult section and selected the first movie on the list!!!!! burg comes out of the bathroom and i'm like "i think the remote just ordered porn!!!" i had pressed the "menu" button on the remote so i didn't have to watch it if, indeed, we had ordered porn. so we try to order our movie from there, but we weren't sure if it went through, and stuff. i mean...we didn't know if we ordered a new movie, if the old movie would sort of cancel itself and end. well, apparently, it doesn't work that way. we went out of the menu option, and, well...i won't tell you what we saw. let's just say what we saw starts with pe and ends with nis. i both screamed and i can't remember what we did. did we press "menu" again in panic? did we turn the tv off? i don't know. we didn't sit there watching it, that's for sure.
so by now i'm pretty frustrated. i'm about ready to yell at anyone working in this hotel to fix our freaking tv. and to get rid of the porn. i go down to the lobby and get the guy on there to cancel our movie and take it off our bill. it went really well, actually, and i didn't have to yell at anyone. i was more than willing at the time, though. stupid remote. we told him at that, too. blah, whatever.
so we finally order our movie: bend it like beckham (this was before it came out on video so it was all special and stuff). it was way better than view from the top, even though i fell asleep somewhere near the end (and woke up at the very last scene when they're in the airport and stuff...even though i missed THE KISS...sorry dg!!). i've since seen the entire movie and i only missed about twenty minutes of it, really. lots of stuff happened in those twenty minutes, however, but oh well.
then we went to sleep.
day five >
