USA: Independence Day. . . Canada: Not So Much

Since we are in Edmonton for one of Dad's meetings, he took off this morning to go to some conference for that while Mom, Sarah, and I woke up around 9:45 and walked across the Plus 15 ( this tunnel things 15 feet above the ground that connects our hotel to this shopping area) to eat breakfast at Tim Hutton's. We came back to the hotel and went swimming for a bit and then took showers...after that we drove to Elk Island and ate lunch at this cute diner and then went for an hour hike...there were supposed to be bison and elk and all sorts of things but the most interesting thing we saw was a beaver..so cute (: When we got back to the hotel we were still pretty full from lunch so we went back to the Blue Plate Diner for dessert (: