West Edmonton Mall or Who has the Largest
 

Then come here. :lol:

The main reason that I only visit my place there in September.:mrgreen:

Went golfing the last 2 days here:razz:

I wish...we only got about 2" last night :(

Ahhhh 16 degrees tomorrow. Gonna put on some socks with sandals, wouldnt be Canadian if i didnt!

Steve

I'm looking forward to wearing my team canada jersey tomorrow without having to hide it under a winter jacket :)

We are above zero here too this weekend, and not a snowflake in site. Kinda depressing actually!

I would be depressed if i lived in Edmonton as well!

Kidding

Go Flames

Steve

oooooh, thems fightin words!

You would be depressed if you came to Edmonton, because you would realize you should have left Calgary so much sooner :mrgreen:

Is this "Edmonton" place I hear people speaking of not a large shopping mall to the north of me? :)

Yep, its just the largest mall in the world surrounded by a couple huts. Er, igloos I meant. lol

Well did you know:

The TransAlta Stage is the largest outdoor production facility of its kind anywhere in the world. The cost of the project was in excess of $6 million.

During the Stampede, approximately 1,844,286 Mini Donuts are consumed.

Caravan Committee Stampede Breakfasts consume more that five tons of pancake batter, two tons of bacon and sausage, 5,000 bottles of pancake syrup and 85,000 containers of juice.

Harry the Horse Mascot makes 75 appearances during the 10 days of Stampede and wears size 38.5 shoes.

The Calgary Stampede is Canada's largest annual event.

In October 2005, the rodeo prize money was increased to $1.6 million with $1 million of that being paid out on Final Showdown Sunday.

In 2005, attendance for the 10-day event was 1,242,928.

The Stampede Casino needs nearly six tons of coins to open and operate.

Calgary's economic benefit from the Calgary Exhibition & Stampede is $300 million annually.

Some of these facts really gross me out!

Steve

:rolleyes:

Uh. This thread was about our snowy climate compared to the opposite out there.

Not about Alberta chest thumping.:lol:

It's Gods country.. we can't help but draw attention to ourselves ;)

i apoligize i go off topic pretty easily.

I can honestly say i do not miss the snow one bit!

Steve

Hey doug..Alberta chest thumping is good. Calgary only wishes to be as good as Edmonton....thats why they keep talking about us cause they wanna be like us too ....

sorry guys had to put that in there.

calgary aint that bad

george

Steve, its the lounge, there is not topic to go off of! :)

:smile: Thats ok. Just giving you the gears.

Sure, there,s my topic in the thread title. :razz:

I wish this pic was taken in Edmonton.
 

Doug, I'm glad that this got dropped on you instead of us. :)

If you need to have a bunch of it sent our way............ Please feel free to send it to Edmallton. :)

*thump, thump, thump*

J/K

Well while you Alberians are busy thumping your chests I wish some of that snow would drift over you and dump on us. I bought a new sled this fall (Polaris 700) and have only been able to ride it like 3 times 'cause we have barely any snow! I want some!!!!!!!:twised:

Damn Ive been spelling it wrong all these years :D

I didn't hit a wrong key now did I????

imagine the size of snowblower you could buy there Doug with trading in Ruth's new sled that she does not use.....:mrgreen:

Or wait a minute what about a bigger tank...

Mike,

Being I just got posted to edmonton last march I have a brand new snow blower I bought in Nova Scotia and I will never use it here.

geo

Sorry to burst your bubble but Edmonton doesnt even have the worlds largest mall anymore . Beijing's Golden Resources Shopping Mall, opened in October 2004, is the world's largest. And this year an even bigger one is opening in United Arab Emirates. And Berjaya Times Square is Malasia is also bigger then West Ed so i guess you guys have to settle for 4th. Oh yeah and GO Flames Go.

I have a honkin snowblower. :lol:

and here I though we would not have as much snow this winter the way it started out. :rolleyes:

Serves me right for moving somewhere at a higher altitude. Well for here, :lol: , nothing compared to out west. :lol:

sean,

i was gonna mention that Dubai was building the bigger one too.I was just there and seen the plans of the new mall and it is gonna be crazy huge

george

I havent even be able to start my sled this year, we havent even had 1" of snow total yet this year, it totally sucks!!!!!!!!!!

and on that note, any one want to buy a sled, or trade for a quad lol

OH being on T-3 's for my back operation I wish I could spell SLED. haahah.....

HE he he just a joke here.

Wait til i tell Tammy that I'm saving up to buy a 96x24x24 tank for my Butterflyies and tang's hehehehehehehehe

Oh ya there george, When i get a chance to come up to
Edmonton we are going to have to get together to go reef visiting to some places around Edmonton ok..

I don't know if you can handle hangin out with a Artillery SGT thou..

holy Crap 1598 posts 2 more to go time for post padding

I doubt it

We'll see if the Dubai mall ends up larger or not.

Mall of America was also PLANNED to be bigger than West Ed too, but didnt turn out that way!

It never was the "worlds" largest, only the largest in north america.. but I hear they are planning on building one in the US that is even bigger.

Steve

Actully it held the title of worlds largest for nearly 20 years.

I dont think there is any larger mall outside of North America

Considering the Oriental Plaza was built in the 70's and has a total area of 800 000 m^2 I would say you are wrong.. :mrgreen: I was a Edmontonian for most of my life and I am just as big of a chest thumper as any other Albertan and I will be moving back when I retire but lets keep our chest thumping backed with facts.. and yes this means Calgarians cannot talk about wanting a professional hockey team anymore:wink: :mrgreen:

Steve

I beg to differ! West Ed is the largest mall in the world, unless the Dubai mall is actually completed larger in 2008.

http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/ref..._edmonton_mall

All my info was taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping_mall so i do have facts. Now your the only one thumping his chest.

Heres also some more facts for you http://www.easternct.edu/depts/amerst/Malls.htm

holy smokes... we don't have a lick of snow here. In fact, there was a forest fire. It's so dry.

amanda

Snow is on the way for us apparantley. I think -19 for Thursday.... noooooooo haha. We have it too good this year.

Bring on the snow :biggrin: Am beginning to think all the grass has died from this weird winter :sad: And a forest fire already !??!!!

SNOW!! SNOW!! SNOW!! All together, now! SNOW!! SNOW!! SNOW!!

For those who have forgotten what snowflakes look like.... http://snowflakes.lookandfeel.com/index.html



But keep away the cold weather :2gunfire: