My Trip To Salt Lake City

Remember our friends in Colorado we went Uraling with?  We met Dom and Martha again in Salt Lake City.  Richard was there to attend a BMW MOA rally.  Dom and Martha had been visiting friends and RVing.  I was just along for the ride, I guess.  Martha and I had planned at first to go shopping, but out plans changed and became educational.  Martha found us a tour bus to take around the city showing historical places ending with hearing the Mormon Tabernacle Choir rehearsing.  

The picture above was our first stop.  This is Union Station.  Walt Disney liked it so much he designed the RR station in Disneyland after this.

Below you see the converted trolly e went around the city in.

You will find Salt Lake City full of statues, fountains and flowers.

Of course, Brigham Young is everywhere.

Utah is the bee hive state.  BY's house had a bee hive on top.  He said he thought of everyone as worker bees working together.  Someone joked that he was the Queen Bee.  In a way, yes.

This was the other part of the house, called the Lion  House.  The had a very good buffet in the bottom floor of this house that had very tasty food for a great price.

This arch way looks odd and out of place where it is in the city, especially with that traffic light.  It was the gateway to BY's farm.  Now it is the gateway to the capital.

Our tour guide talked about the other churches built after the temple and the competing architecture and stained glass.  The one above is the Catholic Church.

These two are of the Presbyterian Church.  Their window was designed and made by Mr. Tiffany.

This monument signifies the faith of the Mormon's as they entered their "Promised Land"

I totally forget who lived here, but I still love this house.

I took this picture to remember the date the college was founded.  It's pretty old.

This is the name of the very successful copper mine in SLC.  I'm going to research how this is related to the one in Alaska.

The skyline.  The natives had a name for this smoky haze in the distance.

This is not a statue of BY.  Like I said, there were a lot of statues in SLC

Camp Douglas

Somewhere in here they have Sadam Houssein's clothes.  

Here is another picture of the Lion House.  The flowers were amazing.  The sign points to the fabulous restaurant.

Here is the bee hive church again.  You can see where the gate to the farm is located.

This is up the hill in the city.  This is an original Pony Express cabin.  The statue below shows two riders exchanging the mail.

We make it to the capital.  The Utah capital was much prettier than the Montana one.  Makes me want to go to Juneau and see our capital.  There is lots of beautiful marble inside.  There was a wedding going on in the rotunda.  This lion's name is Integrity.

As the story goes, the mural at the top of the steps shows Brigham Young and his wife right as they arrived.  She is known to have said "I have traveled a thousand miles to get here, I'll travel a thousand more to go somewhere better."  Well, that is similar to what the tour guide said, but I haven't been able to confirm it.

Utah, the Beehive State 

There are statues of Brigham Young all over SLC.  He didn't look like this the day he arrived.  He was sick in a wagon.  

Here is part of our little tour group, can you find our guide?

Martha Chang and our guide.

Look at the face in the marble.  Our guide said something funny about this face and a politician from back then, but I don't know what it was, but the face is creepy.

This was down in a little valley.  It has war memorials.  I thought it was pretty.

Here are memorials at a visitor 's center.  We saw a movie about the Mormons arriving.  It showed BY arriving in a wagon.

The big quote that you see all over is, "This is the place."

Our guide mentioned that if they had gone further like the wife wanted, the they would have been in Golden California.

Here is the tower that held the Olympic flame.

I am ending this blog with the pictures of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir rehearsal for a big production.  Their guest singer was Alex Boye was their guest.  You can look up the concert on You Tube.  

This has been enough for this blog.  Part one of SLC