Salt Lake City

We left Sacramento and had our longest driving day of the trip. We had to get all the way to Salt Lake City. Not only was it a long drive, but the scenery really didn't change the entire time. Harrison and I did so well though and we only had to make one stop for lunch and one potty stop and that was it! Pulling into Salt Lake City we got to see our first snowfall! Luckily it was just for the last ten minutes of the trip. We had room service and looked out at the beautiful Mormon Temple and Temple Square which was lit up with Christmas lights. The next morning there was more snow falling but we braved the cold and walked over to Temple Square to see the temple (the outside of it anyway) and the Tabernacle. Boy, were there a lot of friendly people there who liked to talk to us! We missed seeing the Tabernacle choir by a day, but we were able to see the organ recital. The organ is huge and has over 11,000 pipes and the building was built so that the sound of a pin dropped at the pulpit can be heard clearly at the back. Such wonderful acoustics are not so wonderful for small children, so we watched a lot of the recital from the cry room and then made an early exit. But at least we can say we saw it!