Head Smashed In Buffalo Jump & Frank

I took the day off today to visit with our visiting relatives from Holland. It was kind of a rainy miserable weather day so we decided to drive out to southern Alberta and visit the Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump.

It was the best day to go. It is World Indigenous Peoples Day so the admission to the Museum was free and there were some really neat things to see. This is a big hide that they would keep track of yearly events on.

We walked through the museum, checked out a few short movies about the jumps and made our way up the hill to the actual Buffalo jumps. This is my Uncle Lou, Aunt Anneke, Cousin Eef and Cousin Sofie.

At the top of the museum we walked down a path to the actual jumps. There is a jump right in the front of the picture. A second jump cliff at the back and a spiritual area right near the little hill in the top left hand corner.

This is my cute cousin Sofie at the top of the Smashed in Head Buffalo Jumps...

and her older equally cute brother Eef!

This is just a cool shot of an indian village that I shot from a model in the museum...

On the way home we headed to Frank to take a look at the Frank Slide. I guess Turtle Mountain collaped one night and 100 people were burried in their beds sleeping in their beds below. It was pretty impressive! All the huge boulders were WAY more impressive in person then they were in the pictures.

We hung around at the rocks for awhile and eventually made our way up the hill to the interpretive centre. There was a really nice view from up there.

It was a pretty nice day seeing ther local Canadian sites and showing off our country to my extremely cool relatives from Holland :)