thursday brought more deinal for us as far as locations…david and i headed out to the east side, first passing spaulding fibre which had a few cars parked behind the fences, not a good sign. we also went by wickwire steel and didn’t see any obvious entrance, especially one where we wouldn’t be spotted – as the property in front of the site have active businesses. ok, off to our target destination of church of the transfig. denied. aside from not being able to find the rumored entrance now that the doors are locked, there were also people sitting on a porch of the building directly next to the church. they stopped talking as i tried to look into the windows of this shed thing. ok next…sacred heart church, also near the terminal. i had looked at a map to find the location, seemed easy enough. except we drove around for an hour and a half not finding the street. asked people at a gas station, followed their directions, still didn’t find the street. at this point we noticed smoke coming from something in the first ward, so we drove over there to see what was on fire. turned out to be a house, but for a moment i thought “what a great photo op it would be if one of the elevators spontaneously combusted.” on driving back towards the terminal from the first ward, what street do we find, the one we were looking for the entire time. i then realized that james, lei and i had driven by this church 2 years ago and i had refused to get out of the car due to the neighborhood. no obvious entrance plus the fact that people were around, and that there is a group working on restoring and reopening the church made us leave pretty quickly. ok now what. i didn’t want to go to the orphanage again, and it turns out david hadn’t been to concrete central so we headed there. spent a bit of time there, got lunch at the place with the biggest pieces of pie ever, then dropped him off at the terminal while i went to the doctor. back to the terminal after my appt for the board meeting, then back home once it was dark.
had a good time. still mad the nursing home foiled me. i figure just wait a few weeks for the ghetto kids to take care of it hahaha. off to go through my photos.