Fabulous Utah Vacation

In early October we drove up to Utah for a week of fun stuff.

Day 1 we saw Temple Square. As always, there were brides and grooms posing by the Salt Lake Temple (like in the background of this picture).

The church administration building opened the 26th floor 2 weeks before we arrived for visitors to look out across Salt Lake City. It was a great view and the elevator was FAST!

The Temple Square grounds were alive with flowers. Lenora was having fun pulling me around to different flowers and posing. This was a great shot...

We also visited both visitor centers and the pioneer museum, as well as the cafe at the Joseph Smith Memorial building. It was really good food.

Benjamin was so tired after our first day that he actually fell asleep while eating a huge chocolate chip cookie on the way back to Aunt Robin's.

Day 2 we went to BYU for lunch with Camille and to see some of Dawnette's favorite professors. It happened to be homecoming week and there were all kinds of things going on at campus.

Day 3 we went to Thanksgiving Point to the Dinosaur musuem. The kids loved it, though Benjamin was a little timid around some of the meat eaters that were posed as though they were ready to eat an unsuspecting visitor.

Lenora on the other hand was getting a kick out of it, such as almost being eaten by the great white.

Saturday we had blue pancakes at the homecoming parade and wore our BYU shirts. Later on we went bowling at the Wilkinson Center. Lenora and Benjamin used these ramps to roll the bowling balls.

Benjamin insisted on carrying the balls to the ramp. He did pretty good until he grabbed a 16 pound ball accidentally and almost dropped it on his foot.

Sunday we had fun going to Megan and Brent's baby blessing and Peter's homecoming talk.

We hung out all day at Craig and Jennifer's to eat Sloppy Joe's and play the "Buzz Word" game. Benjamin had his first encounter with snow (yes, it was snowing that morning) and was eating up the attention he got from Camille and Marshall.

To boot all that, we slept in most days until 9am. It was definitely one our best trips so far.