Temple Square Adventure

We scored some tickets to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Concert featuring David Archuletta. We left Benjamin with a sitter and met up with Dennis' sister Kami. Our 4th ticket went to Emily Velasquez, a youth in our stake who is a very good sport and who was a lot of fun to have along. The concert was full before we even got to Salt Lake City, as we found out later, but that didn't stop us from having a good time! Our parking pass was for the Church Office Building, which had some interesting things in it...


That's right - there's a CAR WASH in the Church Office Building parking garage.

complete with vacuum and garbage area.


Classic shot of the Salt Lake Temple


Nativity in the middle of the fountain - it was beautiful and there were a lot of (more) professional photographers there taking pictures of it. I felt the sudden urge to purchase a tripod.


Cute Kami at Temple Square


Kami at the Family History section of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building. While we were there we saw a few geneology charts that started with just a poor couple in England. One family ended up with 5 Presidents of the US in their lineage and another couple had Shirley Temple, Steve Young, Joseph Smith, Emma Smith, Philo Farnsworth (he invented television), and Lucille Ball.



Rachel and Dennis in front of a really pretty Christmas tree in the Joseph Smith Memorial Building.

We walked downtown in Salt Lake and saw an historical landmark - the building of the Salt Lake Tribune. According to the plaque we read, the Tribune actually started out as a very anti-mormon newspaper, but it has obviously changed its ways since the beginning. The building was pretty boring so I didn't bother to take a picture. :-)

After we left SLC we went to Burger King for dinner and still made it home by 11. We had a great time with Kami and Emily!