Salt Lake City......

It's surprisingly nondescript as you turn off the freeway and then all of a sudden you see the Temple in the midst of lots of other tall office and apartment buildings....it's like an ocean of tranquility in the middle of a busy city.....

we came one day with Shannon and Sydney and Tanner and another day with all the boys (nephews included) who were back from their various camps....

 

we went to the Joseph Smith memorial building....

 

and both the new and old tabernacles.....the garden roof was pretty cool....(well it was baking hot actually and our guide was sweating bullets....)

there was some pretty amazing stuff inside the new conference center....

 

although the couple of hour tour one day was a little too lengthy for the little kids amongst us.....and we towards the end we found ourselves more than a little amused at some of the paintings on display.....I blame it on tiredness hysteria (is there such a thing??)

....moving on to beautiful flowers in the gardens all around the temple.....

we also ate lunch in the Lion House.....and somehow found ourselves sucked into another tour - this time of the Beehive house....where Sam thought the guide had told him that they held F.A.G nights (she said F.H.E. but honestly it did sound like F.A.G!!) and so we dissolved into another round of giggling....wow we were on a roll:)

so we headed back to another late, movies, hanging out and chatting night at the Jensens....last one before heading home:(