“He’s a fine musician that boy” – david bowie on trent reznor hahahha

really really utterly fantastic day!

after not getting u2 vegas tickets, adr1 and i headed out to meet leighanne and adr2 at the shady nature preserve where i once met up with this complete stranger who convinced me to leave my car there and go off with him. lei had some time to drive around lost, and found a road that went all the way down to the opposite side of the river from cargill, so we headed down there first, then back passed the incompetent rail police and drove all the way up to the front of concrete central. we decided to do concrete first since every other time we just stay at cargill and run out of light. concrete was wonderful as before. i found a new place to add to my list of favourite urbex places ever, but it did not photograph very well. adr1 was my camera assistant, lei and adr2 went off wherever. 2 little boys showed up followed by their white trash looking parents, who said they’d bring them back tomorrow with spray paint. the kids thought we were filming a movie haha. later the father pretended to fall off the railroad bridge. a kid on a bike showed up too, wondering how we got the car all the way to the building. we wondered how he got his bike inside the building. he seemed sort of weird. and not cute like the kid on tuesday haha.

so after concrete we backtracked to cargill and wandered around the inside this time. then chilled on the veranda (where 2 other people showed up looking for their wallet). the next non party will be a bbq picnic on the veranda of cargill. it’s just a really awesome place to just sit. not sure why. so we hung out there for a while, and lei, totally uncharacteristically, wanted to be brave and try to do the great northern.

after taking enough silly pictures of eachother on the veranda the 4 of us headed out to great northern. parked between some semis and walked right up to the rumored entry way. again, being brave, lei totally tackled the fence, followed by adr2. and walked right into 2 very very very angry geese. LOL commence geese hissing, lei freezing then running to the corner of the fence and building to hyperventilate while adr2 very speedily went back around the fence away from the geese. continued hissing and honking from the geese, and the 4 of us completely being way too loud laughing/freaking out. i must say the geese are a very good security system because we almost gave up. but fear not, we continued on our quest. as advertised it’s definitely a fully intact elevator. went to the top of one of the marine stacks since we didn’t see the spoken of entrance to the actual building. we tried to be stealth but it was tough haha. came back down, started to head out when i noticed the way in. the only problem is it’s way above our heads, and then the opening is hardly big enough for me to go through. but holycrap!!!! another day i will take the drop inside and figure out some way to get back out again because boy is it a dream exploration. can’t do it alone though because i need someone to boost me up the ledge.

and i really don’t care if cops find this. come arrest me! haha.

but yeah. wow. incredible place. but then we had to face off with the geese again. almost got attacked, but managed to escape hahah. damn geese. and from there, with 2 more hours of daylight left, it was off to the marine star. we thought maybe, with our good luck today, there would be free admission and a stairway to the deck haha. unfortunately there wasn’t, but that’s ok. and continuing to press our luck, we went off to the psych center, but forgot the bolt cutters haha *joking*.

faaaaaaaaaaabulous day. had to call in again. i’m pushing it now haha. i think i get a point for today cuz it’s a saturday, but i still get paid. i can’t use anymore sick time though incase i need it for concerts in the future hehe.

off to edit some pics. yay. 6 rolls of film to develop and i mostly filled up my 512 card. took some video of great northern but it needs to be edited (it’s sideways…)