Birdhouse in your Soul

 

I am not normally a brave person. Really, I am still not sure how I managed to do this, and I am really glad that my friend Kayla likes photography and was just as into getting photos of this beautiful place as I was. I figured my only way in to this abandoned amusement park was to visit the flea market held every Sunday on its grounds. So when we found the flea market, I was surprised to see that it was in the parking lot, and not on the grounds of the parks like the pictures on the website I found said (in hindsight, the website was dated). We walked around and decided to go in from another entrance we saw when we first tried to find the flea market. Only thing was there was this guy in a truck like sleeping so we went to McDonald's and spent our time on Google trying to learn more about this place and the history. I found lots of photographers had gone here, and mostly that if we were careful and not disruptive to our surroundings, we would be fine.

Entering this place was amazing. I have never done anything like this before despite wanting to and my heart felt like it was going to jump out of my body. I was a little shaky and definitely had a lot of adrenaline. We talked to a couple who were wandering around as well and had actually gone to the park as kids. This was such an awesome opportunity to take beautiful photos - and it was the perfect day out for photos - nice, sunny, and about 80 degrees. It is sad to see this though - someone's hard work and way of life just taken down by time and teenagers who need a place to hide and drink (the amount of beer cans around were crazy....I hate that!). There are not really many rides left, most of them were apparently auctioned off back when it was sold and the only thing really remaining is the old coaster, built in the 1930s with a train from the 70s.

This was a beautiful location, and in respect of the place, I'm not going to geo-tag this like I always do. Although I cannot say that it isn't wildly easy to find exactly where this is. I mean, I had the Google maps satellite up and we could see the entire layout of the park, which was actually super helpful in finding which way what we wanted to see was.

dress : sugarhill boutique via modcloth

belt : forever 21 remixed

pup print kids : keds

necklace : anthropologie remixed

bracelet : kate spade remixed

headband : goody remixed 

bag : hobo international via modcloth remixed
*any photo taken at a normal angle of me kayla took - thanks girl!