If only it was that easy!

The way we have done the whole appartment searching is on the internet and also having a drive round the areas that we are interested in and had a look at the areas.  Sometimes they advertise with great big boards that they are renting.

We left messages on answer phones but no one was getting back to us, this is kind of fustrating.  After a couple of e-mails and more phone calls later we managed to view an appartment where there are lots of empty rentals.  The apartment is a new one and she showed us three different lay outs.

I fell in love with one, the view is not get on any of them  but who cares, we will only be there for a year and even if we did want to go before the lease ends we would only have to pay $300 to get out.  The apartment comes with heating and water included and there does seem to be a wireless connection there as well.  The rent was resonable for a two bed apartment.

As we couldn't get hold of any other rentals we have decided to go with it, it offers most of our check list which includes not one but two indoor heated parking stalls.

After we had a look around the apartments and tried and failed to ge hold of other rental people we went out.  We decided to go out for a walk along the river we parked close to the Valley Zoo and walked up Buena Vista Park and turned round at the bridge that crosses over to William Hawrelak Park.

There was lots of ice floating by on the river here's a picture

After that we went to West Edmonton Mall and had a little look round, I was wanting  a book on Edmonton and I found one called Edmonton book of Everything by Macintyre Purcell Publishing Inc.  Apparently everything you wanted to know about Edmonton and were going to ask anyway.  It looks an interesting book.  It includes chapters like Urban Geography, Economy and then and now.  Its not very long only 192 pages but I think it would be a good read for anyone interesting in Edmonton the ISBN is 978-0-9738063-4-2 for anyone who is interested.

When we got  back to the hotel and as I was typing this the phone rang and it was one of the rental people calling, returning our phone call.  We have arranged to view another appartment but I can't see it beating the one we like already.

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