Found this movie for $1.00 at Dollar Tree.

Sorry - I'm up late and now you've got me thinking - "is surfing allowed at the Waterpark?". First, let me say that I'm looking at this from a VERY skewed POV - I've lived in Edmonton all of my life, spent a bunch of years as a "mall rat" (between 50-100 people a night - no adults, all teenagers - learned about every crevice, back hallway, places where the WEM Security didn't go and there were no cameras, all so they could sleep there. But then this guy at the Edmonton Journal wrote a 5-part article about mall rats, prompting changes galore.) I've been stationed there since about 3 weeks ago [mid-November 2012], until the contract runs out, which will be [I imagine] the beginning of 2013.

While I didn't check out the back hallways or anything, they had CERTAINLY made changes to the Security, and I didn't recognize the place AT ALL! I even lived across the street from WEM for awhile (when WEM was first built in the early '80s, the land was purchased because it was cheap, and basically represented the farthest west Edmonton went. That didn't last for very long...). But it was always fun watching people shop at WEM around Xmas time. The 22nd and 23rd of Dec. were always hilarious, because they had all of their (at the time, quite inadequate) Security directing traffic. And don't EVEN get me started about Boxing Day (that's Dec. 26 to those of you who don't know; Americans, compare it to Black Friday). People literally invent their own parking spaces. It doesn't matter if it was an area with grass and signs; if you'd be blocking someone in (actually, forget Boxing Day - we had to get tow trucks in this November because idiots were parking in driving lanes and boxing vehicles in... and, of course, if one car parked there, then the WHOLE FRICKIN' ROW must be OK for parking!); the only rule was "if the car fits, someone will park there". I remember one year, someone got shot, and all of the news footage showed people barely noticing the blood, the body... except for what the police cordoned off, every square millimetere was filled with people.

Oh yeah, the movie.

Anyhoo, now that you know where I'm coming from, I know they used to rent out smaller "boogie boards" to people, and if you were a kid, you could theoretically "surf" on one. I couldn't imagine actually surfing in the wave pool, though, just because the deepest part wasn't very deep; it got shallow REALLY quick; and the waves were (I imagine; not a surfer here) too small and lasted for a VERY short time.

But now I wanna find the frickin' movie just so I can go, "Oh I remember that" or "Hey, I was just there yesterday!" or "Well THAT is long phuccing gone now!!".

"I am insane... and you are my insanity" - James Cole, 12 Monkeys

-AK

I bought a copy from Amazon.com a couple years ago. I'm not sure if they still have it or not, but worth checking around for. Like many people, I only went to this movie because I'm from Edmonton and WEM was a hangout spot in my late teen years. Not too bad of a movie, but did laugh at how Americans picture us Canadians.