So Steve had the Labour Day weekend off, and he came to Kingston for the weekend to relax and hang out, supposedly. We ended up running around the entire weekend that it was ridiculous. *laughs* He wanted to do a lot before it got cold again; he loves being out and active when its warm, not when it’s cold. *laughs* So it was fun. I have no idea where all the places we went to were, but it was still fun. *smile* When he came by on Saturday, we then went up and straight to Henry’s and Future Shop to look around for cameras, and after some talking things out with the salespeople, I ended up getting the Canon EOS 7D at Henry’s, as it was cheaper there than it was at Future Shop…crazy! So I went to get my money, and then bought the camera. Nice…and then we stopped to get some lunch/dinner at Denny’s so it was good. I got back home and got my camera all set up, all charged and ready to go, and then Steve decided to do a lot of checking out of different areas around town and doing a lot of shooting and testing out the DSLR and him videotaping different places.
He then wanted to go to an abandoned house that he had gone in before, and wanted to do a different way of filming it – as in filming me checking out the house with my camera, discovering what visiting an abandoned house was all about, and so on. It was an interesting visit, that’s for sure. There was broken down sheds out back, overgrown grass, the house was half crumbling down to the ground so it was pretty sad pretty much. There was a lot of mold growing everywhere because the house was crumbling down to pieces and all the rain and weather was getting in the house. Sadly enough, but it was interesting checking it out.
I was surprised to find that there were no animals lurking about the house. *smile* I kept thinking that there may be, but there was none so it was a little weird. *L* There were a lot of broken windows so it was nuts.
We finished up wandering about the house, and then got in the car and started back home…then we had a late supper.
The next day we were in and out of the house exploring the camera, playing around with shutter speeds, exposure times, and etcetera. We even tried shooting in the nights so it was pretty cool. We tried for longer shutter speeds so to capture the motiion of moving cars in the highways and the roads, so that part was a lot of fun…I got a lot of different photos so it was fun. Hehe…we explored the camera quite a bit.
We even tried out checking out the horse track stadium so to see what it was all about… it was all open and I saw a couple of people training their horses on the track so that was kind of neat to see. The place was pretty much falling apart, so that was sad, kind of…Steve says that he remembers the place from when he was a kid, and I couldn’t really. I wasn’t sure if I ever went there before…Oh well. We were exploring the place, the land, the track, and we were even able to walk in and explore so that was a lot of fun, finding out what areas might have been before…it was really weird. It was pretty much all wiped out, torn down, but it was neat seeing what used to be and the whole structure. I took a lot of pictures so it was fun. Though we did get in trouble at one point while we were in, we had no idea we were not supposed to be in there or around there, and the guy who runs the place had to get us back down and explained to us that we had to ask permission from the owners to go in, and have someone lead us around…as there had been people who had been injured from going in and things breaking and them going through a floor and the such like, so they like to know that people don’t get hurt while exploring and would prefer people to go to the head guy and ask permission and a tour of the place and he’d show them. I had no idea, and was like, ooh, really? But I know that for next time and ask someone to take me through the building though I did go through a lot of it already. Oops. At one point Steve had to tell me to avoid areas, because there were absestoes, and they were eating through wood and insulation so it was not good. Yuck! *L* I took a lot of pictures and they are in my photo page here on the website, and there’s also a video of the horse track:
We did some visiting of Kingston Mills, of Kingston’s waterfront, some abandoned places like an abandoned gas station, and the such like…even went to check out some railways and that was kind of fun… *smile* I even went to a park, where there was a train track nearby, so it was kind of different to check out, and photograph so it was fun just exploring and doing a lot of different things.
I wanted to try those motion photographs that I remembered doing in college for photography classes, only then I had film cameras. So this way I could see what I took immediately…so it was kind of funny. We took some shots of cars going by in the nights, some shots of trains going by, so that was fun… And so on, so on, it was really fun. I even had Steve go by the train while he was filming I took some shots of him with the moving train so that was a little scary but he wanted to do it so okay then…haha.
It was quite a different weekend so it was just lots and lots of fun.
The time since then has been pretty quiet, other than Steve and I talking about me moving to Brockville once Steve’s lease with his apartment ended, and finding a place to live in and the such like… Heh… Funny. We aren’t yet looking… but his lease doesn’t end till the end of December anyway, so it’s all good anyway. *smile* I was talking to my mom about it all, and she said it was no problem, as right now I pay her rent for my apartment in the house I am in now…so…at one point she said she probably would move upstairs and rent out the basement apartment, but changed her mind just now that she would stay downstairs and rent out the upstairs apartment. So it’s all wait and see.
Now in a few days I’m heading off to Brockville for a week, so that’ll be interesting…just hanging out and relaxing down there…not sure what I can do but I’ll just have to see. *smile*
I’ve been not feeling so great the past little while…it’s been no fun for me really…oh well. I have good and bad days, so it’s all a pain in the butt. But I’ve been keeping busy in cleaning out all the items I have…clothing and stuff…I do need less clothing, I have like a huge collection of clothing and I ended up going through a lot of them and tossing out what I never wore anymore and what was too big or small for me, and tossing them out…so that was fun for me. *smile* I have much less stuff so it’s better, need to have less stuff to pack up after all when I move. I do have a lot of items, unfortunately. Oh well.
I’ve been doing a bit of cooking, a lot of homestyle food so that has been good… pretty yummy, so oh well. I really need to get the hang of cooking good food again, instead of always eating quick meals all the time. Oh well!! Heh.
