1. You felt like Kevin Costner in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves running and sliding around here:
2. This shop was the only place to get your toys at Christmas.
Who needed Toys R' Us? We had Wonderland.
3. You'd go and see the robotic puppet jazz band while scoffing lasagne and enormous ice creams here:
4. But you also knew that nothing beat a Mr Boni's ice cream.
5. You hung out with orangutans here:
Fort Saughton was filled with amazing swings, epic slides, and awesome climbing frames that would keep you busy for hours.
6. You saw all the Disney classics at the ABC.
7. You begged to be taken here on a Friday.
8. But getting dragged around the old Waverley Mall to go shopping was the worst.
1996 Princes Mall (Waverly Market) was vaporwave as fuck. Bring it back.
Unless you got to go to the food hall and get a Happy Meal, of course.
9. You'd go to the arcade at Portobello and rush straight to one of these.
10. And if the sun was shining, you'd take a dip at the beach too.
11. If you lived in north Edinburgh, you probably spent quite a few Saturdays here.
12. Or, if you lived on the other side of town, the WHEC was always a great day out.
The swimming pool in Wester Hailes Education Centre was a brilliant place, you just couldn't beat it (or the amazing toadstool slide).
13. And you learned to swim in the ball pool at Little Marco's.
14. Your first encounter with wild animals was feeding nuts to these little guys at the Botanic Gardens.
15. And you were transported to another world in the hot houses.
16. You'd always watch the skateboarders at Bristo Square.
17. You never needed to go to the countryside: You had Gorgie City Farm.
18. You feared nothing more than the tide coming in at Cramond Island.
19. There were only two reasons to go to the National Museum of Scotland.
20. You'd run to the top deck of the bus and stare down the little box to see the top of the driver's head.
21. And you'd go to shows and play on The Meadows in the long, lazy summer afternoons.
