Temple Square

For the last 7 years, pretty much our whole marriage, I have wanted to go to the Salt Lake City Temple Square lights. We tried to go last year, but it didn't work out. This year we were finally able to go. Diane, Steve, Hannah and Mckyla came down from Pocatello and we met them down in Salt Lake.

Before we met them at Temple Square we went to Gygi's. It is a restaurant supply store that is open to the public. They have everything you might ever need. Even the plastic that looks like glass cups you use at restaurants. Kevin would love those cups. Maybe someday I will get some for him. We were looking for a three foot long potato masher for Uncle Elwin's wedding gift, but they were out. How many people need a three foot long potato masher? I could hardly believe they were out!

After Gygi's we met the Yerkas at the Church History Museum. It was so fun to go there. I think that when the kids are older it will be more enjoyable, just because they didn't want to really look at the history things, but there was a fun children's area and the kids loved it. The first thing Camille saw was this foam stuffed camel. She ran to it, sat on it, and propped her legs up on its neck. It brought back some good memories because I have a picture that is just like that when she is two years old. It made me giggle a little.

After the Church History Museum, we headed over to get some dinner. We went to the City Creek food court and it was CRAZY! Apparently we had come to see the lights on the same day the Tabernacle Choir was doing their Christmas Concert and it meant a ton of people were there. We couldn't find a table to sit at and the chick fil a line was at least a mile long. Okay, not that long, but pretty close. It was super long.

We ended up leaving. It was crazy. When we went outside we decided to try and skip through dinner, look at the lights, and pick something up on the way home. We went over to see the lights and it was beautiful. There were so many lights and so many different nativity sets. The kids quickly started to get cold and hungry. We ended up leaving a little early. It was nice to see the lights, and maybe when the kids are older we will take them again, or maybe next time we try and go to see the lights we will plan to just do the lights. No museum or anything like that. That way the kids will be fresh when we see the lights and not have any melt downs.

We left, picked up pizza and had dinner at our home. It was a good end to the day. Even though it wasn't exactly what I had imagined, it was nice to still go and spend time with our family.