Well this was a massive day and a very amazing day. We did not expect the Boeing factory and Museum of flight well and truly surpassed our expectations! First stop was the Boeing factory were I got to drive the Hummer H3 too. It was awesome and so much fun to drive. Anyway back to Boeing, it was amazing!!! Words can’t really explain it you just have to visit it. The day that we went we visited the 747 production line. It was so awesome to see how the plane we flew over to the states in was made, and a bit scary how thin the aluminium is between you and 40,000 ft. Well after that we went and visited the Future of Flight at the Boeing factory and got to sit in an old 727 -200 cockpit. One of the best things was seeing and reading all about the new 787. The interior is so cool and looks so nice. The windows are great and have a touch slide on it that adjusts the brightness on the window.....electronic shades.....soooo cool. Alright so after I spent ages in the gift shop it was onto the Museum of Flight. This totally blew our minds away.
They have a British Airways Concorde there that you can walk all through. They also have the first Boeing 707 Air Force One, that’s right we were walking where presidents had walked. It was a surreal experience. Here they had a WWI and WWII section, they had the original “Red Barn” also know as the original Boeing factory. They had a space section and also heaps of other aircraft. The best thing for me was they had the only remaining M-21 Blackbird stealth fight that flew in the 60’s and still holds the fastest speed and highest ceiling for an aircraft. Another really cool thing was we all got to sit in the cockpit of a SR-71 blackbird cockpit. This was a dream come true for me....well the closest I’ll get. It has always been a dream of mine to fly a SR-71 and to sit in the cockpit of one was awesome!!!!!!!!! OK so after that we went to the Space Needle and then out for dinner and had the coolest bar tender/waiter/cook his name was Ollie and he was to put it in his words......awesome! Seattle was a real cool and we absolutely loved it. OK so everything was closed by 9pm (a little bit different to Vegas) but it was great and we would go back in a heart-beat.
Day 7
This was a bit of a nothing day which was great as all we did was check out of our awesome and cheap hotel (Comfort Suites – Downtown) and flew into Edmonton on a Canadian Regional Jet. What a great international airport to arrive into. We had no wait for customs or immigration and we were waiting for our bags which was a bit of a change. After Jordie picked us up we had some dinner and a nice relaxing night.
Day 8
Snow Time!!!!! What a great day! We all dressed up in our snow gear and went playing in the snow. One of my cousins had to take a photo of us making snow angels in the snow.....it was so childish and so much fun. We also ran through the forest climbing over snow covered logs and throwing snow at each-other. It was a balmy -9C. After this we decided to brave the pond and slide all over it much to the enjoyment of some people walking by. We then walking back home along a small creek which Phil and I happened to break through the ice.....oops. After this exhausting running around we had dinner and then went and saw Enchanted at the movies. What a great movie!!!
Day 9
Today! Well it was off to the West Edmonton Mall today to do some shopping for each other for Christmas. We spent about 6 hours running around shopping and Phil and I had so much fun with all of the shops that had Ice Hockey gear! It was so cool to be in a country where they love hockey just as much as us!!!! Well this evening we had some dinner (Mona is a great cook) and then went out to Spruce Grove Central Park where they flood the footpath with water to make an ice skating surface. Well as we didn’t have any skates we slide along the path which was really good as it SNOWED today and the path was covered. Every tree in the pack is covered with lights and look so pretty, oh yeah the temp was -14C with a wind chill that made it -27C......now that is cold!!!!!
Anyway it is time for me to sign off for another time. I will update you in the next few days hopefully. If not I hope you all have a great Christmas and for the Ice hockey match tomorrow GO OILERS GO!
Dan
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