next stop Salt Lake City

The next leg of our adventure was in Salt Lake City. We rode up with my parents to go to see my brother Brad and his family and to attend a wedding reception for Kasey Yardley, our neighbor we grew up with.

The first stop was of course at Cafe Rio. Grandpa Wahlstrom has to eat there whenever he is near one. Ava must have been starving because she kept eating and eating.

Sorry Dad, you have to quit giving me ammunition!

The wedding reception was in Alpine Utah up by the mountains. The kids were so excited to come tell us that there were deer over by the fence. We had a great time seeing old friends. The food was so good. They barbequed pulled pork and corn on the cob and made dutch oven peach cobbler. Kasey's dad is a good cook!

On Sunday, I decided to take the kids and Jason to temple square. It had been a long time since we had been there so they didn't remember a lot of it. The first thing we did is tour the conference center. We had a great tour guide who told us lots of stories.




This is on the roof of the conference center. The guide said that the goal was to make it feel like you were in the mountains. It was hot so we didn't stay out there long.

This is the front of the conference center
Next we went to the visitor centers on temple square. The kids wanted to see this statue and I wanted to take them to see a new exhibit which is a scale model of the Salt Lake Temple. This model shows exactly what is inside of the temple and shows you how it is all laid out. It was amazing all the detail that went into it right down to the tiny door knobs.

This is the reflective pool in front of the temple. Ava was tired and started to cry and told me she was not leaving til she saw her reflection. Before we left for Salt Lake I had had some issues with my car battery but the car had been running ok. On our way back from temple square we went to leave and the car was very dead. We couldn't even get it to start using jumper cables. Luckily, a mechanic happened to be in the same parking lot we were and his girlfriend had an extra battery in her car she used for her stereo. He turned her battery upside down and touched it to ours and the car started right up. I told everyone it was a miracle in temple square.

After our adventure downtown we headed back to Brad and Aimee's house for a barbeque. After dinner all the girls put on lots of plays for us that were "wildly" entertaining.




Here are all of the cousins that were there including Zeus. We had so much fun seeing everyone!

Monday morning Grandma and Grandpa had dentist appointments and then we headed back downtown. While grandpa shopped, we headed back to temple square to see the temple model again and to go see the Joseph Smith movie. I was so glad we did. It was very powerful. We also went to the observation deck of the Joseph Smith Building.




After the movie we took the Trax train to the mall Grandpa was at. The kids told me I was lame to take pictures but they will thank me someday!




I had to take a picture of this silly tree that is on the way to Salt Lake from Elko. We always called it the basketball tree. The kids were done by this point so I only got a quick one from the car.