The fabled land of Sherwood Park

Sherwood Park, my current residence, is a rather interesting place. Well it can be sometimes but for the most part I must admit it is rather dull. Sherwood Park is a strange type of place, as it is considered a hamlet rather than a town or city. A hamlet, according to Wikipedia, is a rural community— that is, a small settlement —which is too small to be considered a village. The strange thing about Sherwood Park is that it is rather big to be a hamlet, and has a population of 50,000 people, almost the exact population of Invercargill, New Zealand. As to the name, it was taken from Robin Hood. In fact, a Robin Hood association exists, and some of the streets and parks are named from the Robin Hood story.

For having such a big population, there isn't a lot to do in Sherwood Park. In fact, this is probably one of the reasons they have tried to keep the 'hamlet' status of the place. Granted, there are a couple of things - there's a small mall, a movie theatre, a couple of gym's and a park in the centre. But it terms of things to do, there is surprisingly little. I mean, I can say that it is better than Hawarden, New Zealand. But only marginally so, as there is nowhere to actually go to do things, there is no downtown type area or interesting shop places.

In all fairness, however, the city of Edmonton isn't too far away. By car it takes around 10 minutes to reach the city limits, or about 20 minutes to get downtown provided the traffic isn't too bad. There are multitudes more things to do in Edmonton, but if you don't have a car that can make things a little more difficult. Anyway, enough ranting, I found a couple of silly videos on YouTube about the aforementioned hamlet. There's a Sabotage, by the Beastie Boys, remake made here http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=fSmaWKyW8HM&feature=related and also someones version of The Soprano's intro, except of course its Sherwood Park. http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=Ds3hlX_BkQk&feature=related Who would have thought...