Gasser's in an Abandoned Haven

As you may well know, Adri and I have an obsession with abandoned places.  Well, about a month ago we ran across a place about 15 minutes from where we live.  We told ourselves that we needed to look into it and go spend some time there.  I looked it up on Google Earth and found out that it is the Linfield Industrial Park.

Apparently it has been abandoned and for sale since the 70's.  Some guy owns it and every time someone makes an offer he increases the price, so no one ever buys it.  In the time we were there we saw a mother and her son walking around with their dog and a hunter walking through on his way back to the woods to go hunting.  We talked with him for about 20 minutes and found out that the locals walk around in there or through there all the time.

In total we were there for over 3 hours exploring and taking pictures, and we didn't even see the entire place.  Apparently it is 2,000,000 square feet of pure abandonment.  We will for sure be headed back when it gets warmer outside and the green starts to come back.

So, I wanted to share a number of the pictures that we got while we were there.  First, here are my favorites...

Now, some of the others that I really liked, just not my favorites...

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Christmas in Utah

This is going to be a shorter post, mainly because I didn't take a ton of photos at Christmas this year.  Don't get me wrong, I took my camera, I just didn't pull it out much.  I did have a GoPro with me as we went sledding and snowboarding, but those pictures will come later... hopefully with a video.

So, Christmas in 2012... 

We went to Logan, Utah to spend the holidays with Adri's family there.  It snowed almost the entire time we were there, which is a lot more than it has ever snowed here (granted we've only been in Pennsylvania for a couple months).

We spent the majority of the time relaxing and just enjoying the company of Adrienne's family.  Really, the vacation was much needed and a lot of fun.  Good for the both of us.  Good for Adri to be able to see them, and good for me to continue to get to know them.

Just before we went to Utah we took a quick trip down to Washington, D.C. to go to the temple, see the Christmas lights and see my brother Jeff.  I wanted to share just two quick pictures from that.  Especially since at Christmas time it is the birth of Christ that we celebrate.

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Our Final Californian Adventure

So, Adrienne and I decided that we really wanted to do something random, something you may not expect someone to do before they move away from the state.  We thought for a long time about it, and what did we decide.  Well...

We went to Disneyland!!!!! (and the beach)

I know, I know, not original at all.  Who wouldn't expect someone to go do that right before they leave, right?  Well, we didn't just go to Disneyland... we added a twist to it.

No we didn't, yes we did.  We dressed up as Waldo and Wenda and ran around Disneyland for a couple hours.  In fact, we left early because Adri was getting sick of people yelling "I found them!" or something similar to that every 10 seconds.  I actually rather enjoyed it, and played as though I didn't know what was going on.  We had people ask to take pictures with us to send back to their kids and other family to say they "finally found us," and even some people were sneaking them.  I wanted to look at one kid and just say, "You might as well take it with me staring at you.  I mean, it isn't like I don't realize what I look like right now."  We had a ton of fun!

So, for your viewing pleasure, here are some of the places that we took pictures of us playing "Where's Waldo?"  Now that I have uploaded them to my computer, they really aren't all that hard to spot us, but it was really fun anyway.

We look a bit like creepers in some of them, but who cares? We had a blast!  Enjoy!  P.S. You can click on them to make them bigger if you really need to.

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St. George and Vancouver

Well, as you probably know, or maybe don't, Adri and I are moving to the east coast.  And, well, we are starting that journey next week actually.  Monday the 29th is our last day in California.  

With the move coming upon us so quickly, we figured we needed to get in as much as we could.  Funny thing is that none of the things we are posting today have anything to do with California.  Oh well, the next one will, I promise.  Check back this weekend (hopefully we have time with all the packing) for that one.

Anyway, Adri hasn't run a marathon in a while and she decided that she needed to again.  So, we signed her up for the St. George Marathon and headed up there.  Her sister Taneea and niece Alyssa came to support her as well.  She did a wonderful job!  This is the start of her getting back into it.  We don't know what marathons are in the east, but we'll find some.

After she ran we headed down to Boulder City, NV to see Adri's parents at the art show they were at.  Sadly we didn't get any pictures with them, sorry.  After we spent some time with them we headed over to the Hoover Dam because it was only like 10 minutes away.  We drove over it, walked over it and took pictures of it.  I like this picture best because it gives you an idea of what it is like.  I couldn't get one of the dam itself because then it just looked like a big wall... not as impressive as this in my opinion.

The very next weekend we headed out to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada to see my brother Danny, his wife Denise and their son Liam.  My brother Jeff joined us there as well.  We loved it up there.  Granted, it rained basically the entire time we were there, but it was a lot of fun.  And, Liam is hilarious and cute.  I'm amazed at how smart and curious he is about everything at age 2.  Here he is saying his alphabet until he gets distracted by Jeff playing with the TV.

Then wherever we went he had to be running around and playing.  Props to Danny and Denise for keeping an eye on him and keeping him safe.  He is one active little boy... I love it!

And just because I love Liam's face when he was running around in my shoes I have to post it.  He wanted to get into everything, and know what everything did.  I will never look at my watch again without saying "BING!" every time I unclick it to take it off.

We took what pictures we could while we were there.  But, because it rained the whole time we didn't get a bunch.  We got some, and this doesn't really even begin to describe the beauty of the area.  Plus, we hear that it is even better in the summer time.  Regardless, it was a great time and too short of a weekend for us.  We'll figure out how to make it back there one of these days.

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