Jess & Val in a distance at the coal mine site. Lot of stipped land around.
I forgot to add this in earlier, but its me petting this really puffy cat! (also proof to Colin of me petting it)- it wouldn't let Colin pet it earlier but would let me come up to it:) haha I miss my cats
This was sure a long day, but first we started our Tuesdays normally with French class then eat in Albi's College Cafe. Next we ventured to a nearby Coal Mine in Cagnac, France. AGAIN this blog thing is weird so you need to scroll to the end of this blog and read going up to follow. So, see you at the bottom of this blog:)
We had some time in the gift shop... were supose to be spelling out YMCA. Colin wouldn't join.
Ending our tour, Tim putting his hat back on the rack.
Machine that would dig into the earth for coal. Its huge and we can't even imagine how noisy it would have been.
I'm making sure they stay up.
Main supports.
Oh! this is the cool bike that could transport people to and from places. You can see there are pedals and it is on a wire line system to follow paths.
In the train cart to go for a ride, although theres one problem... the train doesn't move! (Our guide was pretty funny, he had them convinced it would move)
Box cars of coal on a track. Our guide said they would use the track and horses to pull carts back and forth. Once the horses came down into the mine they would usually never come out. Due to the lack of sun light some would lose their eyesight. (what the guide said)
Own & Ian before they go down into the mine. (in the elevator)
Own volunteered so he got to demonstrate one of the miners jobs. Operating the controls.
Here is the proper way to use a come-along. Not many of the signs were in words, mostly pictures because not everyone knew French in this settlement.
I think this is were they would check in and out before going down into the mine. Some sort of air compression system.
I took a picture of a picture they had posted of some coal miners. Look like hard work.
Big warning sign about "NO SMOKING"! This is the same sign that the actual coal miners read too.
When we began the tour of the Mine we all had to wear hard hats. They were kinda gross and smelled and I had too much hair to fit under one while Jess's head was really small to fit in the hats. I picked blue of course.
Looks like Eric is posing, but I didn't mean for him to be in the center of the photo.
Big tank thing that I don't know what it is, but I'm sure it was used for something at one time.
Here is the biggest piece of Coal I've ever seen and of course I had to get a picture with it!
Here is the Cool Bus. Tim rented it to help transport all of us around. Eric, Colin, Jess, Val, & I got to ride in it w/Tim the drive.
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