I wasn't sure what to do today, I knew there were still a few things that we haven't done yet around Edmonton. After a bit of looking around through books we decided to go to Rutherford House. Its just outside Old Strathcona.
What's the significance of the house you may be wondering. It was the home of the first Premier of Alberta, Alexander Cameron, from 1911 to 1941.
Some pretty flowers in the garden
Unfortunatley we got there at 11:30am and the museum opens at 12 noon. I am so impatient (as you may know) and there really isn't much to do near there so we left, leaving this for another day. The admission charge isn't too bad at $4 each and there is also a nice resturant there that opens at 11am, and not too badly priced.
Moving onto Plan B we decided to go to the Alberta Legistature Building.
The building made out of Lego bricks
We have been outside the place and taken pictures but have never gone in. When we got there we managed (only just) to tag onto a tour that was leaving. We didn't have to pay a dollar, it was free! Wow.
The central part of the building was amazing, full of marble and columns.
The building was built between 1907 and 1913 in the Beaux arts style.
According to the Wiki the building is 180 feet and the projected cost was $4 million dollars.
The main debating area was a bit of a let down compared to the central bit, perhaps they had run out of money by the time they got to here. 
There are over 500 lightbulbs in the ceiling. Electricity had only just become available and the young Architect that designed the building went a bit silly when he designed it. The problem is from the floor to the ceiling its about 300 feet so ladders are not long enough to change the bulbs. In order for them to change the bulbs they have to hire some scaffolding and in total it can take three weeks to change them all.
The fountain you see was built for Queen Elizabeths visit to the buiding.
Brass elevator doors.
The day turned out be be great and cheap as well which is always an added benefit. After our little tour we stuck around the city and had a look around the Mall. We had parked to car at the cheap $3 car park by The Delta Edmonton Hotel (I think it's called that) Happy dayz all around 
Strange fruit
We went to the supermarket on our way back home. When we were looking at the fruit section we saw these strange looking things. They kind of look like small potatoes.
I kept looking and touching them, wondering what they were. Making a little fuss wanting to know what they were then a man opposite me started to tell me that they are really good. He said "if you like sugar, you will like them"
He explained that you peal them just like an orange. This then turned into a little chat in the Supermarket, were we Australian? etc etc. We thanked him and off we went.
When we got home I tried one and they are very much like lychees, the small fruit you see in Chinese places but these are called Longans, they are quite nice. | 