Downtown Salt Lake City!

Since we were here for another week, we spent some time in downtown Salt Lake City. First up: some new public art on Regent Street, right in the middle of downtown

Then, the Church History Library, where they had some artifacts on display including this sketch of the first small temple (Monticello Utah, by the way)

After that, the Conference Center, currently acting as a visitor center for Temple Square

Lots of different stuff on display

Plus two different films showing, one in the main auditorium and one in the Little Theatre

We peeked in at the Arnold Friberg paintings in the "Book of Mormon gallery"

These are the original paintings

Looked at a cutaway model of the Salt Lake Temple

Went up to the roof to look down on the construction going on. Many of the windows have been removed, they are doing a LOT of renovation and earthquake-proofing the building, plus building an entirely new entrance to the temple

We went over to the Church History Museum to see a temples exhibit and a women's suffrage exhibit

Last stop: the Utah State Capitol. We've been here tons, they had a women's suffrage exhibit on the top floor that I wanted to see

Utah has had some amazing women!

Our two statues for the state of Utah in the U.S. Capitol have been Brigham Young and Philo T. Farnsworth. Philo is getting replaced by Martha. Although Philo was born in Utah, he got his idea for television when he lived in Idaho (we visited the museum there that had an entire room dedicated to Philo). Martha was 100% Utahn in every way!

Today we attended our home ward, Brookhurst Ward, Centerville North Stake. I totally forgot to take a photo of the building!

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Cross Country Trek!

Monday we went to Manassas National Battlefield. It was drippy and wet, so we didn't see much of the actual battlefield but the visitor center movie was fantastic and the exhibits were pretty amazing too. We learned something interesting--click on this photo if you want to read more. The stone is from the Manassas area farm of Wilmer McLean, the same Wilmer McLean whose home was used for the surrender of Lee to Grant at the end of the Civil War. McLean moved his family from Manassas to escape the battle, one of the very first of the Civil War. He could literally say the war started at his front door and ended in his front parlor! We then headed out, driving 8 hours a day. So our trip looked a little like this: Tuesday Wednesday Thursday We almost made it back to Utah before hitting any storms. There were some gloomy days, swirling snow, snow on the side of the roads (but not ON the road) until we got to west

Connecticut

Sunday we stayed put in Massachusetts where we were boondocking away from the brunt of the storm. We still had a lot of rain. Monday it rained and rained, we were able to find a campground that was open in Connecticut, we drove south in more rain.

Aloha, part 2

Day 9 -- Pearl Harbor and the USS Arizona We rode the bus to Pearl Harbor. The bus in Hawai'i is TheBus, literally. We also noticed that the bus numbers matched the license plates Sights along the way, note the Hawaiian islands on the shaka hand gesture More murals The visitor center is open air, two museum galleries, a theatre, and lots of memorials The Navy runs the ferry from the visitor center out to the USS Arizona There are buoys at either end of the ship, so you can get a sense of its relation to the memorial structure Look closely, you can see a small, white buoy close to the USS Missouri and also parts of the USS Arizona sticking out of the water The entrance to the memorial You can still see oil on the water from the ship In the center of the memorial, there was an open area where you could look down directly onto the ship Looking toward the far end of the memorial The far end of the memorial had all the names listed of those that died in the attack on Pearl Harbor I di

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