Terror in the Mall

Here is a post that Anne tried to make from the Hilton last night that didn't work:

Today was our exciting day at the West Edmonton Mall. I was super excited to go
into the water park (I LOVE WATERPARKS), and just too basically see it. I know
I know materisitic but I grew up poor and it was one of my dreams to go. So we
get there when it opens at noon, look around a bit, go into odd stores, and
price the water park. It is $30 regular but $20 if you go for the last three
hours - which is what we decide to do (Still am poor), we happily play for an
hour noting that it is really raining outside- infact it is hailing. Then we
note there is bit of excitement near the change rooms. It seems that the sewer
has backed up, oh well we aren't leaving yet. Then we hear the park is closing.
So we wade though raw sewage to get our things from the change room, and
attempt to leave the mall because now it is being evacuated. It seems that the
rain was a little to much for the aging mall (I did think it was rather shappy
in appearance). Along the way we could see water running down walls and the ice
rink melting because the power went out. We also talked to an Edmonton Journal
reporter about our expenernce. We get to the van which was parked in about a
foot of water. We were lucky; other cars were up to the tire wells and soaked
inside.

The really sad thing about this is it is our sixth anniversary, so to console
ourselves we checked into the Hilton for the night- Thanks for the anniversary
present Paul!