Salt Lake City
The tabernacle - not allowed in but we did see a model of the inside in the museum. Several associates there extolling the benefits of the faith.
View through town into the desert beyond.
Very civilised and clean city centre - maybe we should promote the faith and the no alcohol aspect to some of our cities!
The Capitol for Utah (pretty similar in appearance to the one in Washington DC) was just open to anyone to wander in - no security, apart from one policeman reading his mobile. Very impressive!!
Then on to the Beehive house where Brigham Young lived. A pretty upmarket residence and got lots of bible quotes from the two sisters showing us around, plus a free offer of the Book of Mormon. Think we might have been detained a little longer if we had accepted!
A few days later, several hundred miles south, in St. George's, we found his winter home - one of the first snowbirds! Nice work if you can get it.
Park City
Roy lives a few miles from the big ski resort of Park City up in the mountains about half an hour from SLC. Snow had arrived on the tops whilst he had been away with us, so he is looking forward to the season and getting back on his skis after a bad fall earlier in the year on the slopes. We went to check out the ski jumps and area where the Winter Olympics had been held in 2002.
This is me practicing for the next WOs (turn off the sound on both of these - still haven't found how to switch off on camera and can't edit it either)
And this is Graham on his snowboard!
Then a quick change out of our ski gear and into town
Nice main street and lots of pricey-for-ski-crowd shops and restaurants. Great history museum on the mining to ski resort story. Also section on the sizable Sundance film festival that comes to town each year.
Liked this old mining underground train that was used by early skiers to get to the slopes!!
Nearby was a great restaurant that Roy took us to. Sample draft beers like this, so you could keep track of them on the menu chequerboard.
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