Gingery Goodness Paddy

Ohhhhh man... I went over to Beans house for girly dinner with Bec, Isabelle and myself... god damn... not only did I stuff my face with ribs, wine and potatoes.. but after dinner Bean did an impromptu last minute cookie bake and what did she bake, you might ask???!!

Ginger cookies, ohhhh yes ginger cookie. Its like a hot, spicy, gingery goodness paddy in my mouth...ohhhh yes, I AM in my comfy place.

Thanks Bean!! you can bake for me anyday

I'm just a Jiggalo

David Lee Roth on the Sopranos???!! This show gets radder and radder!

Start dialing because you know who your callin'!!!

Almost a week to the date and guess what's on t.v. right now??!!...

...Yes, my friends, back to back movies of Ghostbusters 1 and Ghostbusters 2!!!!.... This shit never gets old, I swear!.

So, here is a piece of nerdy information for ya... Harold Ramis (Egon Spengler) played the doctor in the movie "As Good as it Gets" and did you know what his name was in the movie??? Dr.Betts. Yep, thats right Betts....sound familiar?... I think it does... why you might ask? because its my last name!. Six degrees of Ghostbusters separation.

Lego My Ego (I ment Ego, I know how to spell Eggo)

Josh came home from his dad's house with this massive Star Wars Lego set... so being the good Auntie that I am, I offered to built it with him... as soon as I opened the package, Josh was out the door. Which is cool, because me and Lego go waaaay back, once Brian was too old for his Lego it was given to me... in this super old trunk that belonged to my Great Grandma. I used to make houses, elaborate space ships and whatever came to mind... but don't label me a tomboy because Barbie always had a hand in it too.

Anyways, back to the massive Star Wars project, I was humming right along...clicking the pieces in and reading the lovely illustrated instruction book. I seriously thought this thing was golden, until Terry got fed up with watching me put it together... so he took over. Little did I know, the space ship I thought was finished was half way done and put together all back wards (hurray dyslexia)... so much for that. Terry took over and Courtney and I decided to play with the Lego men instead... Princess Leya had Darths helmet on, Darth had Leyas hair on, red Lego pieces where thrown around to look like a blood bath...

....Roughly about 3 hours later, the X Wing was complete... rebuilt the right way, thanks to Terry. So the good Auntie that I am, contributed some what... in her own way... and the Great Unkie Munkey saved the day. If Barbie was here, she would be proud.

Zap

There is so much static here, no matter how much Bounce or Static Spray you use.. you still get shocked.
Pulling clothes out of the dryer you get electro shock therapy. No wonder I'm so tired here.

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!