I recently had the opportunity to visit the West Edmonton Mall. For those of you that may not know this, the West Edmonton Mall is considered among the largest malls in the world. With over 200 store, shops, and attractions like an indoor wave pool and theme park. The mall boasts the largest parking lot in the world with room for 20,000 vehicles. I was there on a Saturday and it took me almost 25 minutes to find a parking space, I wanted to get a locker to put my personal item into it but I could not get one as all the lockers in the whole mall were being used. Getting around the hallways was exiting as they were packed with shopper, on looker and visitors like me. I must, however, express my disappointment when I actually saw the sheer size of the mall. I was expecting something on a more grandiose scale instead what I got was a larger version of every other mall I had been too. I am sure that when you count by square footage the mall is huge, but the actual shopping part of the mall is in my opinion rather ordinary. All in all I was quite happy to have visited and will very likely visit again. I simple expected more than what I got.