Family Day!!!!!!

Last Friday was deemed "Family Day".... Terry, amazingly enough had the day off, Phil had the day off and Austin was still on spring break. So we all piled in Becca's mini van and headed off into Alberta.

Our destination: Frank Slide.

I was so excited, I was giddy like a little school girl. I love going to Museums, Points of Interest, Interpretive Centers and Local Land Marks....love love love it!!!
The Town of Frank, nestled in the Crowsnest Pass is about 45 minutes from Elkford...its about the same distance as Fernie. Back in 1903, Half of Turtle Mountain dropped, destroyed half of Frank and killed over 100 people (the population of Frank at the time was 500). The mountain is so high, that it slid down and created another mountain, made completely out of rubble. This thing is massive! I've seen Hope Slide before but this was nothing compared to Frank.

The Interpretive Center was pretty rad... the cost to get in... not so rad, anyways we watched a Docu-drama about how this whole thing came to play. In true docu-drama fashion, it was pretty cheesy, not to mention I had the giggles for the first 10 minutes or so. I was too busy taking funny pictures of us in the theatre seats that when the movie came on I couldn't shake the laughter.... goooooood times.

After we exhausted the Interpretive Center, you can go outside and walk through the trails of rubble. The Alberta Historical Society made paths through the rubble for your leisure. Paths made up of graves, super creepy... your walking through this vast field of boulders and rubble that killed 100 people, I was half expecting to see a finger or an arm. It was interesting to see and read about but the feeling when I got walking through this place made me feel very solemn.

People were using it as their hiking trail, with their millions of dogs...it was a destination, Come on Rover lets pee on the dead people.

They say that sometime soon the other side of Turtle Mountain will drop too, rocks keep falling down. As for the town of Frank, its basically a tourist destination, you can go to Frank Slide or go check out an under ground coal mine, both are willy-worthy that's for sure. It never went back to a booming mining town like it was in 1903, now there are a few scattered houses, a liquor store and a Masons Hall.

Its crazy how mother nature can just turn on you and there is no way of fighting it. I hope to be far far away from here when Turtle Mountain falls again, I can almost guarantee that it would be heard here when it does, and I don't think I could handle listening to it...it would most likely be on of the most scariest sounds to ever listen too.

On that note, let me post a random picture I took from the Interpretive Centers theatre... if you look really hard, it looks like Becca has a mustache... even though its my hair.. this picture was one of the reasons I got the giggles in the first place!