Trip to Utah 2011

I went to Utah for a week in August.

It was a week full of eating, shopping and pampering.

When I bought my plane ticket, I didn't pay much

attention to the time that my plane left GA. I was

just excited about what time I landed in SLC.

It took off at 6:15 am which means I had to leave at 4:00am

and get up at 3:30am. Needless to say I never really even fell asleep.

(And did I mention I was sleeping on my parents couch)

So I was extremely tried the next day.

When I got to Utah Cali picked me up and we went to breakfast.

Then back to her house for a quick shower and off to get facials.

We went to a beauty school for the facials and had students do them.

It was the best facial I have ever had and it was cheap.

Then a little shopping and dinner at Cafe Rio (my fav)

and then I went to bed early.

After 14 hours of sleep I was refreshed and ready to go.

Since it was Sunday we hung around watching T.V and then to

Cali's parents for dinner and family time.

On Monday I took Cali to work and I went to get a

deep tissue massage. Ouch!! my back was a tight mess.

But it felt much better after that.

That night we went to Training Table

(one of my favs) and then to see

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor dreamcoat

at Hale theater. It was fabulous!

On Tuesday we went to the Oquirrh Mountain Temple

to do baptisims. It's a beautiful Temple.

We then went to lunch and to see the church

movie "17 Miracles". Its about the last handcart company to

come to the Salt Lake valley.

It was so good, I recommend seeing it when it comes

out on video.

On Wednesday we rode Trax into SLC.

It was quite the adventure. Before we got to our 3rd

stop, the train stopped and announced that there

was an incident up ahead and we had to wait awhile.

Then we found out that a women was hit

and killed by the train going southbound.

People were saying she jumped in front of the train.

I actually saw her body covered up with a white sheet

laying on the tracks when we rode by.

So sad!

While we were downtown we went to The Garden for

lunch and took in the views of the city and Temple Square.

The Hotel Utah or now known as Joseph Smith Memorial bldg

is 100 years old this year, so they had some displays of

famous people who had been there, some of the old dishes,

fashions from that time period and the kind of cars

they had then.

At Temple Square in the visitors center they have this

replica of the Salt Lake Temple. It shows what is on each floor.

There were a lot of people there looking at it.

These two ladies who apparently are not familiar with the

temple saw the oxen underneath the baptismal font

and said "Why do they have cows in the basement?"

"We need to find out why there are cows in the basement"

It was pretty funny!

This is a new statue at Temple Square

I thought it was cool.

Outside the conference center

We decided to go bowling, we both claimed to be

bad bowlers. We actually tied our first game 81/81

Not too bad, but then I kicked butt the second game!

It was a fun trip but I got homesick and couldn't wait

to get back to these cute faces!