sunday snow day

Saskurbex and I decided to go on a quick day trip. The weather was nice, lots of snow on the ground and we had quite a few smaller locations in mind. The trip started out slow due to every single church being locked, which was a disappointment. Apparently no one trusts others in this area. Fortunately for us our luck turned around and we started finding churches we could get into, schools and even a railway station. The trip was definitely a nice way to spend my Sunday.

some highlights:
- finding not one but 2 abandoned railway stations, one of them was not converted
- getting attacked by pigeons
- frozen flooded basements
- interesting lighting
- saskurbex accidentally pulling a door of a church
- thigh high snow (that will teach me to wear ski pants)
- finding an abandoned ski hill
- finding "the pop shoppe" bottles still in original crates

nothing better than knee deep snow

these are the pigeons that lived in the schoolhouse

a wild bunch that couldn't seem to find the way out

just taking a break with the pop shoppe

thank god it is winter and these were frozen

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missed church

Believe it or not i missed exploring a church. In an area i have explored many times i missed seeing a spectacular little stone church! :o

Saskurbex finally found some time to explore with me so we went out on a last minute small trip to some familiar churches and decided to see this other one i had missed many times before. It was a cold night and there was a lot of snow but the church was worth our while.

Highlights:
- a working organ in the church
- making a snow angel
- trudging through thigh high snow
- getting to wear all my winter gear!
- finding something new that is nearby
- forgetting my flashlight
- finding a stone building

here are some pics: