Observatory Adventure

[Saturday]
Another day off of work :) After a failed attempt to find a couch on craigslist, mom and I decided to go on a garage sale adventure to see if we could find anything. Two houses actually told us that they had sold a sectional earlier that week! Not cool.... My perfect couch will find me one day.
We drove through Rochester and up Walton. Mom suggested we go through the Lake Angelus area. I knew that secretly she just wanted to look for the observatory hehehe. As we passed the first long driveway on the left, we decided we had to at least look. A ways through the woods and to the left, sure enough was the mysterious observatory! We were suuuuuper excited :] As we drove up, there were people outside setting up some antenna and invited us to come take a tour. It was sooo cool! The old guy that gave us a tour (Larry I think was his name?) knew everything there was to know. We got to see all sorts of cool equipment that is still left there, and we got to go up in the middle tower to the top. He even opened up the ceiling for us! Of course the trees are overgrown now so it is hard to see the sky, but at one time they had one of the worlds most innovate telescopes of the time up there. What a day to not bring my camera... Here is a cell phone picture of my fascinated mother haha.

The amount of old stuff they have there is amazing. The old movie projectors and dark rooms were the most interesting. This one building we went in had offices upstairs that we got to explore. Right at the top of the stairs was a built in receptionist desk, with a chair, telephone and computer all left behind. There was a library filled with books and a board room table in the middle. In one room was a couch and desk with a ton of stuff in there that the guy told us a hypnotist used to rent out. One day she just stopped coming but she left all her stuff behind. Weird.... To be honest the place gave me the creeps! It reminded me of this episode of Boy Meets World where everyone is stuck in detention and there is a killer janitor or something... Don't ask, that just popped into my head lol. Anyway- enough rambling about that. It was cool though! I think that place will end up in a scary movie one day. Here is a picture of it from way back in the day- (it looks nothing like this now)

After we returned from out adventure, I headed over to Erika's again. :) Hunter and Christian were there. We all hung out in the pool and ate good food. Yummm! We played pool, corn hole, and had a fire w/smores. Such a lovely night!